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Journalism by Ian Hamilton

While everything has been done to ensure the completeness and
accuracy of this bibliography, the compilers can be sure that their
efforts have not been entirely successful. The editors would therefore be
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AGENDA

'Theodore Roethke', 3:4, April 1964: 5-10 [Theodore Roethke, The Open House and The Lost Son].

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

'In Wartime, Everyone Gets to Be a Writer', 28 March 1992; 112.
'Athletes With Minds, Not Just Muscles', 6 December 1992: 10.
'Most Alcoholic of All Authors? Ian Hamilton on an Informative Account of Malcolm Lowry's Sozzled Life', 11 October 1993: 10.
'Ghostwriters Playing the Game', 12 December 1993: 11.

ENCOUNTER

'Strange Bedfellows', 24:3, March 1965: 81-83 [David Holbrook, The Quest for Love].

EVENING STANDARD

'Confessions of a Secret Censor', 20 January 1977. 'Why a Poet Isn't Averse to Going Pop', 5 May 1977.

FINANCIAL TIMES

'Socialist Out of His Depth', 5 November 1995 [Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams, A Biography].
'Symbolic Search for El Dorado', 10 June 1995 [Charles Nicholl, The Creature in the Map].

GRANTA

'J. D. Salinger Versus Random House Inc.', 23, 1988: 197-218.
'A Colossal Hoard' (The descendants of James Boswell), 41, 1992: 203-218.
'Gazza Agonistes', 45, 1993: 9-125.
'The Trouble with Money', 49, Winter 1994: 59-66; reprinted in The Trouble with Money and Other Essays, 1998: 3-8.
'Sohoitis', London Issue, 65, Spring 1999: 291-303.

GQ

'Heavy Duty', May 1993: 107-111, 180; reprinted as 'Lennox Lewis: A Profile' in Walking Possession, 1994: 291-302 [Profile of the boxer].

THE GUARDIAN

'Lowell's God', 1966 Uarome Mazzaro, The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell].
'Grigson's Position Papers', 18 October 1984.
'Genial Learning Offered With Shy Generosity', 23 January 1992 Uohn Updike, Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism].
'Mexico, Where Love Is a Bowl of Chillies', 20 February 1992: 25.
'The Likely Lad', 6 November 1993: 6.
'The Italian Job; Gazza: A Fan's Portrait', 13 November 1993: 40.
'A Victory of Sorts', 3 June 1994: T6.
'Confessions of Soccer's Neglected Clown Prince', 9 july 1994: 25.
'Past the Studio Gate', 5 May 1995: T9.
'Letter: Hugo's Dance on Harold's Coffin', 26 May 1995: 18.
'Letter: Unionists Take the Stand', 17 February 1996: 24.
'Letter: Been There', 2 April 1996: 8.
'Letter: Cutting That Redwood Down to Size', 8 June 1996: 28.
'Biographer as a Bad Neighbour', 14 June 1996: Ti 1 [Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: A Biography].
'Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs', 9 October 1997: 18.
'Your Welfare at Heart', 27 December 1997: 18.
'Haunted by Fame', 9 May 1998: 1.
'The Garden', 16 May 1998: 10.
'The Guardian Profile: Peter Porter; Triumph of the Downside', 20 February 1999: 6.
'Bohemian Rhapsodist', 10 July 1999: Saturday Page, 6[Shena Mackay].
'With Friends Like These. . .', 6 July 2000: 21.
'Education: A True Vocation', l4juIy 2000: 23.
'Against Oblivion', 16 March 2002: Saturday Review, 1-2 [Extract from IH's Against Oblivion]. 'It Was All Greek to HD', 23 March 2002: Saturday Review, 2 [Extract from IH's Against Oblivion, discussing Hilda Doolittle].
'Well, Here's to You, Mr Robinson', 30 March 2002: Saturday Review, 3 [Extract from IH's Against Oblivion, discussing Weldon Kees].
'Enigma with an Identity Crisis', 6 April 2002: Saturday Review, 3 [Extract from IH's Against Oblivion, discussing Stephen Spender].

HARPER'S

'Say More - An Introduction', 276:1657, June 1988: 27. 'A Biographer's Second Thoughts', August 1994: 25.

HARPER'S & QUEEN

'In Search of J.D. Salinger', September 1988.

HUDSON REVIEW

'Letter from England', 17, Autumn 1964: 447-450.

THE INDEPENDENT

'The Beat Goes On - and On and On', 25 February 1990: 20 [Barry Miles, Ginsberg: A Biography].
'More Pricks Than Kicks in the Movies', 27 May 1990: 16.
'Pale Imitations and Other Unoriginal Sins', 2 September 1990: 24 [Unauthorised Versions: Poems and their Parodies, edited by Kenneth Baker].
'Letter: The Conservative Leadership Election: the Issues, the Candidates and the Implications', November 1990: 18.
'Letter', October 1992: 23.
'Letter: Briefly', February 1993: 18.
'The Daily Poem', August 1994: 4.
'Scots Have a Surprise for You. England Has Taken Union with Scotland for Granted, but Soon It Is in for a Shock, Says Ian Hamilton', July 1996: 13.
'Why Is Black Rod the Only Black Here? Let Me As a Scot, a Foreigner Who Always Wishes England Well, Try to Describe Your State Opening Ceremonial to You', October 1996: 17.

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'A Plain Man's Guide to Writer Chappies', 20 May 1990: 22 [Anthony Powell, Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers I 946-89].
'More Kicks than Pricks in the Movies', 27 May 1990: 16.
'Diary of an Average Moron', 13 September 1992: 29 [Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life].
'Blind Side of a One-Eyed Prophet',iO January 1993: 26 [H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man].
'Vanishing Point', 21 February 1993: 23 [Christopher Benfey, The Double Life of Stephen Crane].

THE LISTENER

'A Showdown in Spain', 5 May 1966: 656 [Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, Journey to the Frontier].
'Bugging Hemingway', 29 September 1966: 464 [A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway; Nelson Algren, Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way].
'Nothing Or Me', 24 November 1966: 779 [Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas, edited by Constantine Fitzgibbon; A Garland for Dylan Thomas, edited by George J. Firmage; William T. Moynihan, The Craft and Art of Dylan Thomas].
'Miss Onlymind', 1 December 1966: 815 [Brigid Brophy, Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews; Malcolm Muggeridge, Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes].
'Invulnerable Poet', 16 February 1967: 235; reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 145-1 47 [Letters of Wallace Stevens, selected and edited by Holly Stevens].
'P.M's Poetry', 16 March 1967: 362 [Robert H. Ross, The Georgian Revolt: Rise and Fall of a Poetic Ideal, 1910-22].
'The New American Dictatorship', 23 March 1967: 403 [The New Writing in the USA, edited by Donald Allen and Robert Creeley; Modern Occasions, edited by Philip Rahv].
'Possum Posthumous', 25 May 1967: 690 [T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, edited by Allen Tate; T.S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth].
'Fiction: Comfortably Surreal', 13 July 1967 [Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop; J.G. Farrell, A Girl in the Head; Francis Clifford, All Men are Lonely Now].
'Fiction: Dreamscapes', 27 July 1967 [John Gooding, People of Providence Street; David Benedictus, Hump or, Bone by Bone Alive; Jack Cope, The Man Who Doubted, and Other Stories].
'Unearned Wisdom', 17 August 1967 [Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World; Paula Fox, Poor George; Cecilia Holland, Rakossy; Gore Vidal, Washington DC; Alberto Ongaro, Excelsior].
'Savage Squealer', 21 September 1967 [Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time of the Hero; Nicholas Wollaston, Jupiter Laughs; Leslie Thomas, Orange Wednesday; Robin Brown, A Forest is a Long Time Growing, Alan Sharp, The Wind Shifts; Tony Gray, Gone the Time; August Strindberg, The Scapegoat).
'Growing Girls', 26 October 1967 [A.L. Barker, The Middling; Diana Athill, Don't Look at Me Like That; Marvin Cohen, The Self-Devoted Friend].
'Revenger', 30 November 1967 [Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita].
'Ot Cars and Men', 11 January 1968 [Simone de Beauvoir, Les Belles Images; Uwe Johnson, The Third Book About Achim].
'Scenes from Prison Life', 8 February 1968 [Malcolm Braly, On the Yard; Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life; Paolo Volponi, The Memorandum].
'Crofter's Carpet', 7 March 1968 [lain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies; The Stories of James Stern; Mervyn Jones, A Survivor].
'Lacerations', 4 April 1968: 448 Uohn Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am; John Wyndham, Chocky].
'Growing Pains', 6 June 1968; reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 148-1 51 [The Letters of Rupert Brooke, edited by Geoffrey Keynes].
'Cutting Candy Dead', 12 September 1968; reprinted as 'Terry Southern's Candy' in Walking Possession, 1994: 186-189 [Terry Southern, Candy].
'Drowning Aesthete', 28 November 1968: 726-727 [Richard Aldington, Life for Life's Sake].
'Professor of Poetry - Ian Hamilton Writes About Roy Fuller', 5 December 1968: 761-762re- printed as'Roy Fuller' in Walking Possession, 1994: 108-112.
'Somebody Down There Bugs Me', 16 January 1969: 87 Ueff Nuttall, Bomb Culture]. 'Music-Hall Terrors', 20 February 1969: 244 U. P. Donleavy, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B].
'Disciplinarian', 20 March 1969: 395 [Geoffrey Grigson, Poems and Poets].
'Manual for Beginners', 17 April 1969; reprinted as 'Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint' in Walking Possession, 1994: 182-185 [Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint].
'Television: Speeches in Palestine - Ian Hamilton on Son of Man", 24 April 1969.
'Flight From America', 8 May 1969: 655-656 [Thomas Rogers, The Pursuit of Happiness].
'Bountiful Hotels', 15 May 1969: 695 [The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven].
'Television: Swinging Paris by Ian Hamilton', 22 May 1969.
'Merry Widows', 19 June 1969: 871-872.
'Errant Apostles', 3 July 1969: 24 Uohn Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman].
'Twittering Transistorised Infallibility', 17 July 1969: 90-91.
'A Healthy Death', 31 July 1969: 158 [Edward Upward, In the Thirties; The RailwayAccident and Other Stories; The Rotten Elements].
'The Aspiring Survivor', 14 August 1969: 225-226.
'Never Let Everton Get on Top', 11 September 1969: 355-356.
'A Generation Ago: What Happened When the Vim Ran Out - Ian Hamilton on the Writers of the Early Fifties and the Magazines They Wrote For', 25 September 1969: 406-407.
'Rupert and Robert', 9 October 1969: 495-496.
'Brother Booker', 16 October 1969: 527 [Christopher Booker, The Neophiliacs].
'Lord Snowdon's Outlandish Pet-Lovers', 6 November 1969: 646-647.
'Television: Essays and Cowboys by Ian Hamilton', 11 December 1969.
'A Man at Arm's Length', 1 January 1970; reprinted as 'Aldous Huxley's Letters' in Walking Possession, 1994: 27-30 [The Letters of Aldous Huxley, edited by Grover Smith].
'This Year's Christmas Box', 1 January 1970: 27-28.
'Who's Afraid of Programmes about Virginia Woolf', 29 January 1970.
'All Play and No Work', 26 February 1970: 291.
'The Song That Made Dublin Happy', 26 March 1970: 427-428.
'Oh, What an Interesting Detective', 23 April 1970: 562-563.
'Requiem for a Novelist', 21 May 1970: 695-696.
'Ian Hamilton Considers British Coverage of the World Cup', 18 June 1970: 838-839.
'Investigations', 16 July 1970: 94-95.
'Accusations', 6 August 1970: 189-1 90.
'A National Cynicism', 3 September 1970: 319-320.
'Art Therapy', 1 October 1970: 462-463.
'Back to School', 29 October 1970: 606-607.
'Trouble at the Cattle-Market', 26 November 1970: 759.

LONDON MAGAZINE

2:4, July 1962: 73-77 [Ned O'Gorman, The Night of the Hammer, Robert Conquest, Between Mars and Venus; John Heath Stubbs, The Blue Fly in His Hand; Robin Skelton, The Dark Window].
2:8, November 1962: 83-85 [Alan Ross, African Negatives; Dannie Abse, Poems, Golders Green; Vernon Scannell, A Sense of Danger Earle Birney, Ice Cod Bell or Stone].
3:2, May 1963: 81-83[AnthologyofModern Poetry, edited by John Wain; ContemporaryAmerican Poetry, edited by Donald Hall].
'Poetry', 3:3, june 1963: 63-66 [Ted Hughes].
'Poetry', 3:4, July 1963: 54-57 [Sylvia Plath].
'Poetry', 3:5, August 1963: 58-61 [American Poetry].
'Poetry', 3:6, September 1963: 78-81 [Walterde Ia Mare].
'Poetry', 3:8, November 1963: 62-66 [Louis MacNeice]; reprinted as 'Louis MacNeice' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 30-36.
'Poetry', 3:9, December1963: 59-62 [American Sixties Press]; reprinted as 'The Sixties Press' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 122-1 33.
'Recent Verse', 3:10, January 1964: 101-104 [Ted Hughes, The Earth-Owl and Other MoonPeople].
'Poetry', 3:12, March 1964: 67-70 [Poetry Book Society].
'Poetry: The Forties, 1', 4:1, April 1964: 81-89; reprinted as 'The Forties: 1' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 55-66.
'Poetry', 4:2, May 1964: 70-74 [Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings]; reprinted as 'Philip Larkin' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 134-138.
'Poetry: The Forties, 2', 4:3, June 1964: 67-72; reprinted as 'The Forties: 2' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 66-74.
'Poetry', 4:4, July 1964: 65-69 [William Carlos Williams]; reprinted as 'All American' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 45-54.
'Poetry: The Forties, 3', 4:5, August 1964: 75-79; reprinted as 'The Forties: 3' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 74-80.
'Selected Books', 4:6, September 1964: 91-94; reprinted as 'Donald Davie' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 139-144 [Donald Davie, Events and Wisdoms].
'Four Conversations: Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, Christopher Middleton and Charles Tomlinson', 4:8, 4 November 1964: 64-85.
'Poetry', 4:9, December 1964: 80-83 [Edward Lucie-Smith].
'Poetry: The Forties, 4', 4:10, January 1965:83-87; reprinted as 'The Forties: 4' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 80-86.
'Poetry', 4:11, February 1965: 93-1 00 [John Berryman]; reprinted as 'John Berryman' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 111-121.
'Poetry', 4:12, March 1965 [Anne Sexton, Selected Poems].
'Poetry', 5:2, May 1965: 56-59 [Robert Lowell]; reprinted as 'Robert Lowell: 2. For the Union Dead' mA Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 102-107.
'Poetry', 5:3, June 1965: 67-70 [Roy Fuller, Buff]; reprinted as 'Roy Fuller' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 87-91.
'Poetry', 5:4, July 1965: 78-80 [john Wain, Wildtrack].
'Poetry', 5:11, February 1966: 81-83 [Christopher Middleton].
'Selected Books', 5:12, March 1966: 95-97 [Hugo Williams, Symptoms of Loss].
'Poetry', 6:3, June 1966: 85-87 [George Barker, Summer Night; Kathleen Raine, The Hollow Hill].
'Poetry', 6:4, July 1966: 103-1 04 [Charles Tomlinson, American Scenes].
'Poetry', 6:8, November1966: 97-99 [Norman MacCaig, Surroundings; David Wevill, A Christ of the Ice Floes'].
'Poetry', 6:10, january 1967: 88-89 [Brian Jones, Poems].
'Poetry', 7:3, june 1967: 88-90 [The Liverpool Scene, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith].

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

'Letter to the Editor', 1:1, 25 October 1979: 2 [Comments on the first issue of the magazine].
'Snowdunnit', 1:2, 8 November 1979: 13 [C. P. Snow, A Cost of Varnish].
'Blowing It', 2:4, 6 March 1980: 11 [Norman Podhoretz, Breaking Ranks].
'Smileyfication', 2:5, 20 March 1980: 15-16 [john le Carre, Smiley's People].
'Hard Man', 2:20, 16 October-S November 1980: 15 [Gordon Williams, Walk Don't Walk; The Camp; From Scenes Like These].
'Fame', 3:12, 2-15 july 1981: 14-15 [Clive James, Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne].
'The Comic Strip', 3:16, 3-16 September 1981: 20; reprinted in London Review of Books: Anthology Two (Junction Books, London, 1982): 83-87; reprinted again in Walking Possession, 1994: 259-264; reprinted again in The Trouble With Money and Other Essays, 1998: 351-356.
'Ugly Stuff', 3:19, 15 October-4 November 1981: 17 [William Trevor, Beyond the Pale; Patricia Highsmith, The Black House; Adam Mars-Jones, Lantern Lecture].
'Diary', 4:12, 1-14 July 1982: 21.
'Diary', 4:13, 15 JuIy-4 August 1982: 21; reprinted as 'TV's World Cup '82' in Walking Possession, 1994: 272-276.
'Diary', 4:14, 5-18 August 1982: 21.
'Diary', 4:16, 2-15 September 1982: 21.
'Cinders', 4:19, 21 October-3 November 1982: 12; reprinted as 'Just the Job: Cynthia Payne's Comforts' in Walking Possession, 1994: 265-271 [Eileen McLeod, Women Working: Prostitution Now; Paul Bailey, An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne; Martin O'Brien, All the Girls].
'Diary', 5:2, 3-16 February 1983: 21.
'Mummies', 5:11, 16 June-6 July 1983: 6; reprinted as 'Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings' in Walking Possession, 1994: 174-181 [Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings].
'Diary', 5:17, 15 September-S October 1983: 21.
'Diary', 5:18, 6-19 October 1983: 18; reprinted as 'Litfest in Oz' in Walking Possession, 1994:
223-227.
'Diary', 6:5,15 March-4 April 1984: 21.
'Martin and Martina', 6:17, 20 September-3 October1984: 3-4; reprinted as 'Martin Amis's Money' in Walking Possession, 1994: 190-197 [Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note].
'Diary', 6:23, 15 November-6 December 1984: 21.
'Diary', 7:16, 19 September 1985: 21.
'The Waugh Between the Diaries', 7:21, 5 December 1985: 10 [The Diaries of Auberon Waugh: A Turbulent Decade 1976-1985, edited by Anna Galli-Pahlavi].
'Diary', 8:1, 23 January 1986: 25.
'Real Questions', 8:19, 6 November 1986: 7; reprinted as 'julian Barnes's Staring at the Sun' in Walking Possession, 1994: 198-204 [Julian Barnes, Staring at the Sun].
'Diary', 9:13, 9 July 1987:21 [LiteraryJournalsi.
'Excusez-Moi', 9:17, 1 October 1987: 10-11; reprinted as 'Seamus Heaney' in Walking Possession, 1994: 154-1 61; and reprinted as 'Seamus Heaney's Anonymity' in The Trouble with Money: 330-337 [Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern].
'Phil the Lark', 10:18, 13 October 1988:3,5; reprinted in Walking Possession, 1994: 123-1 29; and reprinted again in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 307-313 [Philip Larkin, Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite].
'Dogface', 11:18, 28 September 1989: 6-7 [Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War Andrew Sinclair, War like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties].
'They Never Married', 12:9, 10 May 1990: 5-6; reprinted as 'The DNB' in Walking Possession, 1994: 72-78 [The Dictionary of National Biography: 198 1-1985, edited by Lord Blake and C. S. Nichols].
'What's Wrong With Desmond?', 12:16, 30 August 1990: 6; reprinted as 'What's Wrong with Desmond' in Walking Possession, 1994: 250-256 [Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts:
Desmond and Molly MacCarthy].
'One for the Road', 13:6, 21 March 1991: 3; reprinted as 'Kingsley Amis's Memoirs' in Walking Possession, 1994: 59-64; and reprinted as 'Kingsley Amis's Self-Love' in The Trouble with Money: 345-3 50 [Kingley Amis, Memoirs].
'Cold Shoulders, Short Trousers', 14:5, 12 March 1992: 22; partially as 'Evelyn and Auberon' in Walking Possession, 1994: 65-7 1 [Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?; Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, edited by Artemis Cooper].
'Whangity-Whang-Whang', 14:10, 28 May 1992: 19; reprinted as 'Damon Runyon' in Walking Possession, 1994: 52-58; and reprinted as 'Innocent Bystander - The Forgetfulness of Damon Runyon in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 338-344 [jimmy Breslin, Damon Run yon: A Life].
'Evil Days', 14:14, 23 July 1992: 9; reprinted as 'John Carey and the Intellectuals' in Walking Possession, 1994: 207-213 [john Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia].
'Bugger Me Blue', 14:20, 22 October 1992: 3-4; reprinted in Walking Possession, 1994: 130- 136; and reprinted again in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 314-320 [The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite].
'Irving, Terry, Gary and Graham', 15:8, 22 April 1993: 12-13; reprinted as 'Irving Scholar's Spurs' in Walking Possession, 1994: 283-290 [Irving Scholar and Mihir Bose, Behind Closed Doors; Chris Horrie, Sick as a Parrot: The Inside Story of the Spurs Fiasco; Cohn Malam, Gary Lineker:
Strikingly Different].
'Disastered Me', 15:17, 9 September 1993: 3, 5. [Karl Miller, Rebecca's Vest: A Memoir].
'Being There', 15:19, 7 October 1993, 19-20 [Ved Mehta, Up at Oxford].
'Young Wystan', 16:17, 8 September 1994, 12-13; reprinted as 'Auden's Juvenilia' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 87-94 [W.H. Auden, Juvenilia: Poems 1 922-28].
'Call Me Unpretentious', 16:20, 20 October 1994, 10 [Terry Major-Ball, Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother].
'Tel's Tale', 16:22, 24 November 1994: 24; reprinted in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 203- 208 [Terry Venables and Neil Hanson, Venables: The Autobiography].
'Neglect', 17:2, 26 january 1995: 19 [Edward Upward, An Unmentionable Man; Journey to the Border Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward, The Mortmere Stories].
'Smartened Up', 17:5,9 March 1995: 3-4; reprinted as 'Louis MacNeice: Anxious and Aloof' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 1 45-1 51. [Jon Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice: A Biography].
'There Shouldn't Be a Licence to Get Things Wrong', 17:11, 8 June 1995: 24-25; reprinted as 'Harold Ross of The New Yorker' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 40-48 [Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the 'New Yorker'].
'Heart-Stopping', 18:2, 25 January 1996: 19-20; reprinted as 'On Being a Soccer Bore' in The
Trouble with Money, 1998: 196-202 [David Bennie, Not Playing for Celtic: Another Paradise
Lost; David Platt, Achieving the Goal; Gary McAllister with Graham Clark, Captain's Log: The
Gary McAllister Story; John Brown with Derek Watson, Blue Girl: The John Brown Story;
Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward, Kicking and Screaming: An Oral History of Football in England; Tom Watt, A Passion for the Game: Real Lives in Football].
'Many-Modelled', 18:12, 20 June 1996, 10; reprinted as 'Ford Madox Ford: Who Am I?' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 139-1 44 [Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Vol. 1:
The World Before the War].
'Diary', 18:16, 22 August 1996: 29; reprinted as 'I Love Concordances' in The Trouble with Money and Other Essays, 1998: 16-21.
'Just What Are Those Teeth For?', 19:8, 24 April 1997: 27; reprinted in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 237-242.
'Diary', 19:16, 22 May 1997: 29; reprinted as 'Cups and cups: Chelsea, the Boro, Alan Hudson' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 215-220 [Alan Hudson, The Working Man's Ballet].
'Frown by Frown', 19:13, 3 July 1997: 10-11; reprinted as 'R.S. Thomas - Frown by Frown' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 159-166 [R.S. Thomas, Autobiographies and Collected Poems 1945-90 and Justin Wintle, Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God].
'The LeastYou Can Do Is Read It', 19:19,2 October 1997: 30-31; reprinted as'PoorCyril' in The Trouble with Money and Other Essays, 1998: 22-28 [Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life].
'Taste, Tact and Racism', 20:2, 22 January 1998:16-17; reprinted in The Trouble with Money,
1998: 266-286 [Ahmad Ata, Assassination of a Princess; liham Sharshar, Diana: A Princess
Killed by Love; Muhammad Ragab, Who Killed Diana?; Tim Dale, Harrods: A Palace in
Knightsbridge].
'Redeemable Bad Guy', 2 April 1998: 21-22 Uohn Updike, Toward the End of Time, Golf Dreams].
'How Much?', 20:12, 18 June 1998: 7-8 [Guide to Literary Prizes, edited by Huw Molseed; The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards, edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson].
'Diary', 20:15, 30 July 1998: 33 [On the World Cup, France, 1998].
'Hobnobbing', 20:19, 1 October 1998: 29-30. [Philip Ziegler, OsbertSilwell].
'Eric the Nerd', 20:21, 29 October 1998: 18-20. [The Complete Works of George Orwell, Vols. I to XX, edited by Peter Davison].
'Diary: Snoop Doggy Dogg for Laureate', 21:1, 7 January 1999: 37.
'A to Z', 21:5, 4 March 1999: 22-23. [Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets; David Goldie, A Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919- 28].
'Diary: Whoop, Whoop, Terrain', 21:9, 29 April 1999: 33 [Malcolm MacPherson, The Black Box:
Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-Flight Accidents].
'A Couple of Peep-Holes in the Pillowcase and off We Go a-Lynching', 21:20, 30 September 1999: 64-65 [Inside the Kiavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the Twenties, edited by David Horowitz].
'Glittering Fiend', 21:24, 9 December 1999: 32-33 [Berryman's Shakespeare, edited by John Haffenden; Richard Kelly, John Beriyman's Personal Library: A Catalogue].
'Ashamed of the Planet', 22:5, 2 March 2000: 16-17 [Randall Jarrell, No Other Book: Selected Essays, edited by Brad Leithauser; Mary von SchraderJarrell, Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher].
'Sorry to Go on Like This', 22:11, 1 June 2000: 3, 5 [The Letters of Kingsley Amis, edited by Zachary Leader].
"OK, Holy Man, Try This", 22:12, 22 June 2000: 36-37 [Philip Roth, The Human Stain].
'The Power of Des', 22:13, 6 July 2000: 27 [On the screen rights to the English Premier League].
'Going Flat Out, National Front and All', 22:24, 14 December 2000: 7-8 [Alan Clark, Diaries:
Into Politics; The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists, edited by
Irene and Alan Taylor; The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Vol. III: From Major to Blair, edited by
Sarah Curtis].
'Tough Guy', 23:3, 8 February 2001: 17-18 [Keith Douglas: The Letters, edited by Desmond Graham].
"I Intend to Support White Rule"', 23:10,24 May 2001: 30-31 [Thomas Underwood, Allen Tate:
Orphan of the South].

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

'History in Mistaking', 27 February 2000 [David Mamet's 'Wilson'].

NEW REPUBLIC

'The Buried Life', August 1994: 29-30, 32-34; reprinted as 'The Buried Life: Elizabeth Bishop's Letters' in The Trouble with Money, 1 998: 49-60 [Elizabeth Bishop, One Art: The Selected Letters, edited by Robert Giroux].

THE NEW REVIEW
[Editorials and Interviews are not listed]

'Divine Atflatus', 1:2, May 1974:43-53; reprinted in The Little Magazines, 1976: 11-43 [Margaret Anderson's The Little Review].
'The Little Magazines - 2: The BilIHook', 1:5, August 1974: 50-57; reprinted as 'The BilIHook' in The Little Magazines, 1976: 81-98 [Geoffrey Grigson's The New Verse].
'The Little Magazines -3: Poetry in Porkopolis', 1:8, November 1974: 39-47; reprinted as 'Poetry in Porkopolis' in The Little Magazines, 1976: 44-66 [Harriet Monroe's Poetry].
'The Little Magazines -4: Styles of Despair: Cyril Connolly's Horizon', 1:9, December, 1974: 3- 9; reprinted as 'Styles of Despair' in The Little Magazines, 1976: 125-146.

NEW SOCIETY

'Poetry Helplessly', 2 June 1964:24-25.
'Facing Facts', 3 October 1968; reprinted as 'George Orwell's Essays and Reviews' in Walking Possession, 1994: 214-218 [The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus].
'Running for Congress', 21 November 1968; reprinted as 'John Updike's Couples' in Walking Possession, 1994: 169-1 73 [John Updike, Couples].
'Expatriate Attitudes', 23 January 1969 [D.J. Enright, Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor Mordecai Richler, Hunting Tigers Under Glass].
'Fines and Privates', 29 May 1969 [C.H. Rolph, Books in the Dock].

THE NEW STATESMAN

'Weak Tea', 24 September 1965 [George Rostrevor, Rapids of Time; Leonard Clark, A Fool in the Forest; Alexander Lenard, The Valley of the Latin Bear].
'Fatal Fascinations', 14 January 1966 [Kathrin Perutz, The Ghosts; Joyce Carol Oates, With Shuddering Fall; Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace; Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn].
'Take a Chair', 25 February 1966 [Rachel Trickett, The Elders; Michael Standen, A Sane and Able Man; Andrew Fetler, The Travellers; Thomas Armstrong, Our London Office; Phyllis Bentley, A Man of His Time; Winifred Holtby, South Riding; Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim].
'Redemptions', 8 April 1966 [Evan S. Connell Jr., At the Crossroads; Jonathan Baumbach, A Man to Conjure With; Christiane Rochefort, Cats Don't Care for Money; Alexis Lykiard, Zones].
'Abu's America', 20 May 1966[W.J. Weatherby, Out of Hiding; Maureen Duffy, The Microcosm; Stanley Crawford, Gascoyne].
'Sunsets', 1 July 1966 [Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World; Melvyn Bragg, The Second Inheritance; Nigel Balchin, In the Absence of Mrs Petersen; Ian Norrie, Quentin and the Bogomils; Albert Lebowitz, Laban's Will].
'Frolics', 12 August 1966: 235 [Aubrey Beardsley, Under the Hill (completed by John Glassco); Stephen Vicinczey, In Praise of Older Women; Nicholas Freeling, The Dresden Green].
'College Boy', 23 September 1966 Uohn Hersey, Too Far to Walk; julian Mitchell, A Circle of Friends; Brian Glanville, A Roman Marriage; Jakov Lind, Landscape in Concrete; Raleigh Trevelyan, The Big Tomato].
'Living', 4 November 1966 [Edna O'Brien, Causalties of Peace; Alison Smithson, A Portrait of the
Female Mind as a Young Girl; Hugo Charteris, The Coat; Anthony Carson, The Golden Kiss;
John Vaizey, BarometerMan; Compton Mackenzie, PaperLives; Basil Davidson, TheAndrassy
Affair Robert Homan, On the Verge].
'Smiling Sweeney', 16 December 1966 [Gerald Green, The Legions of Bible Christians; Fumio Niwa, The Buddha Tree; Peter Cowan, Seed; Henry Lawson's Best Stories, chosen by Cecil Mann].
'Night Noises', 27 January 1967 [Paul Bowles, Up Above in the World; Mohammed Mrabet, Love with a Few Hairs; Robert Harling, The Hollow Sunday; Philip Purser, The Twentymen; Mikhail Sholokhov, One Man's Destiny; Tibor Dery, The Portuguese Princess].
'Everybody Stopped Singing', 3 February 1967 [Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Michael Thorpe, Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Study].
'Weekend Competition - No. 2,004' [as 'Edward Pygge'], New Statesman (9 August 1968): 181
'Bedtime Story', 23 October 1970: 534.
'In Dreams', 27 November 1970: 723.
'Frost at Midday', 19 February 1971: 245-246; reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 154-1 57 [Lawrance Thompson, Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph 1915-1 938; Edward Connery Lathem, The Poetry of Robert Frost].
'Sad Heart', 19 March 1971: 389-390; reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 151-1 53 Uohn Unterecker, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane].
'The Making of the Movement', 23 April 1971: 570-571; reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973:
128-133 [Robert Conquest, New Lines].
'Rational Rigour', 25 June 1971: 882-883 [Roy Fuller, Owls and Artificers].
'Chop-Chop', 19 January 1973: 101.
'More Flicks than Kicks', 2 February 1973: 174.
'E.P. - R.l.P', 9 February 1973: 209-210 [Poetry event celebrating Ezra Pound].
'On the Game', 9 March 1973: 355 [TV review].
'Desperate Dick', 16 March 1973: 388 [TV review].
'In Point of Fact', 13 April 1973: 564 [TV review].
'Skin Flicks', 20 April 1973: 595-596 [TV review].
'Be My Guest', 27 April 1973: 629-630 [TV review].
'Where There's Brass', 4 May 1973: 668 [TV review].
'Champion', 11 May 1973: 705 [TV review].
'Deadly Virtues', 18 May 1973: 746-747 [TV review].
'In Hazard', 25 May 1973: 785-786 [TV review].
'Falling Stars', 1 June 1973: 820 [TV review].
'Up Your Street', 8 June 1973: 857-858 [TV review].
'Mind How You Go', 15 June 1973: 903 [TV review].
'Life Studies', 22 June 1973: 937-938 [TV review].
'Open Day', 29 June 1973: 978-979 [TV review].
'Bank Account', 6 July 1973: 29 [TV review].
'Dj-Day', 13 July 1973: 59-60 [TV review].
'Portrait of a Lady', 20 july 1973: 97 [TV review].
'The Big Sleep', 27 July 1973: 130-131 [TV review].
'Tickled Pink', 3 August 1973: 166-1 67 [TV review].
'Pox On't', 10 August 1973: 199 [TV review].
'Rebores', 17 August 1973: 231-232 [TV review].
'The Big Parade', 24 August 1973: 262-263 [TV review].
'That's My Boy', 31 August 1973: 296 [TV review].
"Ullo, 'Ullo', 7 September 1973: 326-327 [TV review].
'Time Machine', 14 September 1973: 363 [TV review].
'Many Thanks', 21 September 1973: 398-399 [TV review].
'Birds, Beasts and Bockies', 28 September 1973: 446 [TV review].
'Eton Crop', 5 October 1973: 492-493 [TV review].
'Lumping It', 12 October 1973: 534 [TV review].
'Forty Years On', 19 October 1973: 573-574 [TV review].
'Eyestrain', 26 October 1973: 622 [TV review].
'Fun People', 2 November 1973: 661-662 [TV review].
'Ashes to Ashes', 9 November 1 973: 709 [TV review].
'Bridal Paths', 16 November 1973: 749-750 [TV review].
'Smart Set', 23 November 1973: 787-788 [TV review].
'Magic Moments', 30 November 1973: 834 [TV review].
'Hard-Pressed', 7 December 1973: 880-881 [TV review].
'Goodness Me, a Poem!', 8 August 1975: 172 [Stevie Smith, Collected Poems].
'I'm an MA!', 18 June 1976: 823 [TV review].
'Vigilantes', 25 June 1976: 858 [TV review].
'Yankee Go Home', 9 July 1976: 58-59 [TV review].
'Fatcats', 16 July 1976: 88-89 [TV review].
'It's Supermen', 23 July 1976: 124-125 [TV review].
'The Best of British', 30 July 1976: 154 [TV review].
'Choked', 6 August 1976: 186-1 87 [TV review].
'Slum Pickings', 13 August 1976: 217 [TV review].
'Stir Quality', 20 August 1976: 253 [TV review].
'Adult Education', 27 August 1976: 287-288 [TV review].
'Dry Eye', 3 September 1976: 352 [TV review].
'Pork Pies', 17 September 1976: 384-385 [TV review].
'Making Up His Mind', 24 September 1976: 414 [George Orwell, Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1984].
'Dear Aunty ...', 22 October 1976: 608 [TV review].
'Do It Yourself', 5 November 1976: 648-649 [TV review].
'Watchdog', 12 November 1976: 690-691 [TV review].
'No Biz', 19 November 1976: 726 [TV review].
'Where Were You?', 26 November 1976: 767-768 [TV review].
'One-Man Plan', 3 December 1976: 817-818 [TV review].
'Sob-Editor', 10 December 1976: 851 [TV review].
'Toytowns', 17 December 1976: 880-881 [TV review].
'Christmas Box', 24 December 1976: 929 [TV review].
'Totalled', 7 January 1977: 26-27 [TV review].
'Daddy's Girl', 14 January 1977: 62-64 [TV review].
'Rogues' Gallery', 21 January 1977: 97 [TV review].
'Mod Corns', 28 January 1977: 134 [TV review].
'Myxing It', 4 February 1977: 166-167 [TV review].
'Rough Trade', 11 February 1977: 198 [TV review].
'Loaded', 18 February 1977: 230 [TV review].
'Rat-a-Tat', 25 February 1977: 265-266 [TV review].
'That's Life', 4 March 1977: 299 [TV review].
'TTFN', 11 March 1977: 330-331 [TV review].
'Dad's Army', 18 March 1977: 374 [TV review].
'The Fidgets', 25 March 1977: 409-410 [TV review].
'Ming-Pong', 1 April 1977: 440-441 [TV review].
'Make It Mine', 8 April 1977: 472 [TV review].
'A Star Is Born', 15 April 1977: 506-507 [TV review].
'Parson's Pleasure', 22 April 1977: 542 [TV review].
'Like a Trouper', 29 April 1977: 578-579 [TV review].
'Papier Macho', 6 May 1977: 615-616[TV review].
'The Bottom of the Line', 13 May 1977: 652, 654 [TV review].
'Book Review 800' (as 'Edward Pygge'), 13 May 1977 [Tom Wolfe, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine]: 647-648.
'Blackheads', 20 May 1977: 690 [TV review].
'Bet Your Boots', 27 May 1977: 720-721 [TV review].
'They Spy', 3 June 1977: 758 [TV review].
'Our Fair Lady', 10 June 1977: 790 [TV review].
'Care for a Smoke', 17 June 1977: 830 [TV review].
'Yokel Colour', 24 june 1977: 864-865 [TV review].
'There'll Always Be an English', 1 July 1977: 28 [TV review].
'Tough Talk', 5 August 1977: 189-1 90 [TV review].
'Jarndyced', 12 August 1977: 224 [TV review].
'Face to Faith', 19 August 1977: 254-255 [TV review].
'Mummy Go Home', 26 August 1977: 281 [TV review].
'Left Eye', 2 September 1977: 314 [TV review].
'Dutch Cop', 9 September 1977: 347 [TV review].
'Shamanly', 16 September 1977: 376-377 [TV review].
'Heave Ho', 23 September 1977: 41 9-420 [TV review].
'Optional Extras', 7 October 1977: 484-485 [TV review].
'Psyched Out', 14 October 1977: 516-517 [TV review].
'Poetasters', 21 October 1977: 562-563 [TV review].
'Record Bids', 28 October 1977: 595 [TV review].
'Sin City', 28 October 1977: 588-589 [Dan Jacobson, The Confessions of Jozef Baisz].
'Symposium: F. R. Leavis, 1895-1 978', 21 April 1978: 536-537.
'Trunch', (as 'Edward Pygge'), 30 June 1978 Uudy Hindley and Donald Rumbelow, The Knowhow Book of Detection]: 890-891.
'Blasts from the Past', 11 August 1978: 193-194 [The Women Pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Read; The Eclipse; The Dark Horse].
'Those Wide Open Spaces', 18 August 1978: 220-221 [The Woman].
'Peek-a-Boo', 25 August1978: 251-252[VieuxCarré;lvanov].
'The Works', 10 November 1978: 632-633.
'DT's', 17 November 1978: 674-675.
'Pink 'Uns', 24 November 1978: 714-71 5.
'Tripping Up', 22 December 1978:881-882 [The Best of John Betjeman, selected by John Guest].
'Dank You, Man', 16 February 1979: 228 [just a Gigolo; Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band; Skip Tracer].
'Delta Plus', 23 February 1979: 262-263 [National Lampoon's Animal House; Too Many Chefs; In Praise of Older Women].
'Gooks Tour', 2 March 1979: 298 [The Deer Hunter; The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith; The Pas sage].
'Truly True', 9 March 1979: 336 [Same Time, Next Year; The Last Supper].
'The Prudence Farmer Award', 14 September 1979: 384 [IH judges poems for the annual competition, selecting John Fuller's 'In the Corridor' as the winner].
'Will They Survive? A Look at Literary Reputations', 29 May 2000, [On T.S. Eliot].

THE NEW YORKER

'Spender's Lives', 28 February, 1994: 72-85; reprinted as 'The Sensitivities of Stephen Spender' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 61-86.
'Tennyson Anyone?', 22-29 August 1994: 116-121; reprinted as 'Tennyson: Two Lives' in The Trouble with Money, 1 998: 1 69-179 [Michael Thorn, Tennyson; Peter Levi, Tennyson].
'The First Life of Salman Rushdie', 25 December-i January 1996: 90-97; reprinted in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 95-1 38.
'An Oxford Union', 19 February 1996: 70-74 [On Iris Murdoch and john Bayley]. 'Anti-Star: A Profile of Julie Christie', 1998; reprinted in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 250-265.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

'The Tatty Wreckage of Her Life', 25 October 1987: 12.
'Killjoy', 154: 2085, 8 June 1997: Magazine, 6, 72; reprinted as 'Us and Them' in The Trouble with Money and Other Essays, 1998: 9-15.

THE OBSERVER

'Laureate of Lust' (as 'Peter Marsh') 1966; partly reprinted as 'George Barker: Dreams of a Summer Night' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 158-160 [Gavin Ewart, Pleasures of the Flesh; George Barker, Dreams of a Summer Night; Kenneth White, The Cold Wind of Dawn; Johannes Bobrowski, Shadow Land; Herbert Read, Collected Poems].
'Potions of the South' (as 'Peter Marsh'), 1966 [Lawrence Durrell, The Ikons; William Plomer, Taste and Remember Norman MacCaig, Surroundings; David Wevil I, A Christ of the Ice Floes].
'Props for a Proposition' (as 'Peter Marsh'), 1966 [Charles Tomlinson, American Scenes; R.S. Thomas, Pieta; Brian Higgins, The Northern Fiddler Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist].
'Straight from the Heart' (as 'Peter Marsh'), 1966 [Randall Jarrell, The Lost World; Louis Simpson, Selected Poems; Louis Zukofsky, All the Collected Shorter Poems, 1923-58].
'The Desire to Please' (as 'Peter Marsh'), 1966; partly reprinted as 'Robert Creeley: Poems 1950- 65' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: [Robert Creeley, Poems 1950-65; Philip Hobsbaum, In Retreat; Keith Harrison, Points in a Journey].
'On the Rhythmic Run', 26 March 1967 [Austin Clarke, Old Fashioned Pilgrimage; Robert Bly, Silence in the Snowy Fields; Ted Walker, The Solitaries; Alan Brownjohn, The Lions' Mouths].
'Piling on the Agony', 14 May 1967 [Anne Sexton, Live or Die; George MacBeth, The Colour of Blood; Ken Smith, The Pity; David Holbrook, Object Relations].
'The Furies in Suburbia', 18 June 1967; partly reprinted as 'john Fuller: The Tree That Walked' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 163-165 John Fuller, The Tree that Walked; Anthony Thwaite, The Stones of Emptiness; Geoffrey Grigson, A Skull in Salop].
'Poetry in Brief', 18 June 1967 [Matthew Mead, Identities; Brian Patten, Little Johnny's Confession, Tom Pickard, High on the Walls].
'MacDiarmid Nicht?', 13 August 1967; reprinted as 'Hugh MacDiarmind: Collected Poems and A Lap of Honour' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 171-1 73 [Hugh MacDiarmind, Collected Poems; Hugh MacDiarmid, A Lap of Honour Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Duncan Glen].
'Common Sense and Sensibility', 24 September 1967; reprinted as 'Elizabeth Jennings: Collected Poems' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 170-171 [Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems].
'Dead Ends and Soft Centres', 12 November 1967 [Thom Gunn, Touch; Kingsley Amis, A Look Around the Estate; Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours; W.S. Merwin, The Moving Target].
'Women's-Eye Views', 31 December 1967; partly reprinted as 'Elizabeth Bishop: Selected Poems' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 160-162 [Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems; Adrienne Rich, Selected Poems; Patricia Beer, Just Like the Resurrection; Rosemary Tonks, Iliad of Broken Sentences].
'Bringing Out the Worst', 11 February 1968 [Howard Nemerov, The Winter Lightning; Cid Corman, Words for Each Other, Galway Kinnell, Poems of the Night; Alan Ross, Poems 1942-67; Peter Dale, The Storms].
'Deaths and Entrances', 10 March 1968 [Charles Causley, Underneath the Water; George Barker, The Golden Chains; Philip O'Connor, Selected Poems 1936-66; Adrian Mitchell, Out Loud].
'Poet from Poland', 17 March 1968 [Zbigniew Herbert, Selected Poems].
'Love Me, Love My Poems', 12 May 1968 [Tony Connor, Kon in Springtime; William Wantling, The Awakening; W.W. Robson, The Signs Among Us; Edwin Morgan, The Second Life].
'Public Gestures, Private Poems', 30 June 1968 [Robert Bly, The Light Around the Body; Brian Jones, A Family Album; Gavin Ewart, The Deceptive Grin of the Gravel Porters; Stewart Conn, Stoats in Sunlight; Dannie Abse, A Small Desperation; Norman Jackson, Beyond the Habit of Sense].
'All in the Game', 24 November 1968 [Arthur Hopcraft, The Football Man].
'Confessions and Professions', 15 December 1968; partly reprinted as 'W.D. Snodgrass: After Experience' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 174-175 [W.D. Snodgrass, After Experience; R.S. Thomas, Not That He Brought Flowers; Barry Cole, Moonsearch; Philip Oakes, In the Affirmative].
'In the Dust of Battle', 1968 [Richard Murphy, The Battle of Aughrim; Derek Mahon, Night- Crossing; George MacBeth, The Night of Stones; Edward Lucie-Smith, Towards Silence; Barry Macsweeney, The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother].
'Landscapes and Footlights', 1968 [Molly Holden, To Make Me Grieve; Allen Ginsberg, Ankor Wat; Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon; Robert Lowell, Life Studies].
'Picking Over the Rubble', 1968 [Robin Skelton, Poetry of the Forties].
'Tremblings of Promise', 13 April 1969 [Brian Patten, Notes to the Hurrying Man; Philip Hobsbaum,
Coming out Fighting; Jennifer Couroucli, On This Athenian Hill; Edward Storey, North Bank
Night; Alan Bold, A Perpetual Mochine Machine; James Simmons, In the Wilderness; W.S.
Merwin, The Lice].
'Miller's Complaint', 29 June 1969: 24 [Henry Miller, Sexus].
'Declarations of Despair', 21 September 1969 Uames Wright, Shall We Gather at the River Gal- way Kinnell, Body Rags; Vernon Scannell, Epithets of War George MacBeth, A War Quartet].
'Once More With Feeling', 7 December 1969 [Donald Davie, Essex Poems; Douglas Dunn, Terry StreeF Brian Jones, Interior, Robert Graves, Love Poems].
'Down from the Mountain', 1969 [Denise Levertov, The Sorrow Dance; Kenneth Patchen, Selected Poems; Austin Clarke, The Echo at Coole and Other Poems; Spike Hawkins, The Lost Fire Brigade].
'In the Public Service', 1969 [Peter Porter, A Porter Folio; Alan Brownjohn, Sandgrains on a Tray; lain Crichton Smith, From Bourgeois Land; Christopher Logue, New Numbers].
'It's All in the Game', 1969 [Vasko Popa, Selected Poems; Jon Stallworthy, Root and Branch; Elizabeth Jennings, The Animals' Arrival].
'Wrapping It Up', 1969 [Geoffrey Grigson, Ingestion of Ice Cream; Robert Conquest, Arias from a Love Opera; David Wright, Nerve Ends; Peter Whigham, The Blue Winged Bee].
'Call to Arms', 4 January 1970 [FR. Leavis, English Literature in Our Time and the University].
'Loads of Heavy Thinking', 18 January 1970 [Michael Hamburger, Travelling; Anne Sexton, Love Poems; Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position; Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World].
'Who is Sylvia?', 1 February 1970 [Charles Newman, The Art of Sylvia Plath].
'A Very Private Poet', 22 February 1970 [The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson].
'Special Pleading', 24 May 1970: 30 [Mary McCarthy, The Writing on the Wall].
'A Matter of Balance', 19 July 1970 [Hugo Williams, Sugar Daddy Glyn Hughes, Neighbours; Peter Dale, Mortal Fire; George MacBeth, The Burning Cone].
'Poetry', 6 September 1970 [Robert Mezey, The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems 1954-1 969; Robert Creeley, The Finger; Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems; Adrien Stoutenberg, A Short History of the Fur Trade; David Wagoner, Working Against Time].
'Soul Expanding Potions', 4 April 1971 [Thom Gunn, Moly; Jon Silkin, Amana Grass; Richard Wilbur, Walking to Sleep; Martin Seymour-Smith, Reminiscences of Norma].
'Origins and Ancestors', 11 July 1971 [Louis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I; J.V. Cunningham, Collected Poems & Epigrams; Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden; John Cotton, Old Movies; James Simmons, Energy to Burn].
'The Bones in the Dyke', 29 August 1971 [Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns; George Mackay Brown, Fishermen with Ploughs and Poems New and Selected; Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare].
'Watering the Waste Land', 7 November 1971 [T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land: Facsimile and Transcripts of the Original Draft, edited by Valerie Eliot].
'Dark Cupboard', 11 February 1973 [Leslie A. Fiedler, The Stranger in Shakespeare].
'Poetry and Self Control', 11 March 1973: 37 [Donald Davie, Thomas Hardy and British Poetry].
'Ringing the Changes', 24 June 1973 [Robert Lowell, The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet].
'Arms and the Poet', 9 June 1974 [Desmond Graham, Keith Douglas 1920-1944].
10 April1977: 20 [Writers at Work: The 'Paris Review' Interviews, edited by George Plimpton].
'Dylan: A Bard But Not a Poet', 11 June 1978 [Terry Seago, Montage].
'Crime Ration', 8 April 1979: 38.
'Crime Ration', 22 April 1979.
'Crime Ration', 6 May 1979: 36.
'The Poet in His Madness', 27 March 1983: 25 [An extract from the forthcoming Robert Lowell: A Biography].
'Mogul of the Avant-Garde', 29 May 1988 [Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound].
'Love and Kisses', 31 July 1988 [We Dream of Honour: John Berryman's Letters to His Mother, edited by Richard j. Kelly].
'Whose Sylvia: the Estate's or the Biographer's?', 29 October 1989; reprinted as 'Sylvia Plath: 2' in Walking Possession, 1994: 47-51 [Anne Stevenson, Bitter Flame: A Life of Sylvia Plath].
'Why ItIs Still Hard to Forgive and Forget and to Apologize for Dresden', 22 January 1995: 18.
'Haunted by Ghost Writers', 19 March 1995:16.
'The British Regard Him As a Bit Of a Joke: A Pharoah Tale', 25 January 1998: 7 [On Mohammed Al-Fayed].

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

'A Poet's Reply. Was Sylvia Plath Her Husband's Victim?', 15 February 1998: ES.
'Stranger on the Shore. This Week, Mohamed Fayed Lashed Out at a British Establishment That Still Won't Give Him Respect', 15 February 1998: D7.

PUNCH

'Glenn and "Glenda", 1997; reprinted in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 229-236.

RADIO TIMES

'Putting on the Poetry', 1973: 66.

THE REVIEW
[Editorials are not listed]

'There is a Happy Land', 1, April-May 1962, 35-36 [David Holbrook, Llareggub Revisited].
'A Pretty Pair' (as 'Edward Pygge', with John Fuller), 1, April-May 1962: 38-39. [Ned O'Gorman, The Night of the Hammer Patrick Creagh, A Row of Pharoahs].
'An Unconvincing Handful' (as 'Peter Marsh'), 2, June-July 1962: 33-36.
'Tedium' (as 'Edward Pygge'), 2, June-July 1962: 47 [Dannie Abse, Poems, Golders Green].
'Robert Lowell', 3, August-September 1962: 15-24; reprinted as 'Robert Lowell' in The Modern Poet, 1968: 32-41; reprinted again as 'Robert Lowell: I. Lord Weary to Life Studies' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 92-1 02 [Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Imitations, Life Studies].
'Edward Pygge Reports' (with John Fuller), 5, February 1963: 51.
'A Girl Can't Go On Laughing All The Time', 6-7, June 1963; reprinted as 'William Empson' in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 37-44 [William Empson].
'Edward Pygge Reports', 8, August 1963: 59-60.
'Edward l'ygge Reports' (with John Fuller), 9, October 1963: 63.
'Edward Pygge Reports' (with Cohn Falck), 16, October 1966: 46-50.
'Edward Pygge Reports', 18, April 1968: 69 (inside front cover).
'Edward Pygge Reports', 20, March 1969: 67.
'Edward Pygge Reports: Where Are They Now?' (with John Fuller), 22, June 1970: 62-63.
'Edward Pygge Reports', 24, December 1970: 80.

THE SPECTATOR

'Salvaging the Apocalypse', 23 April 1965: 540 [The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Verse, edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright].
'Flowers and Porpoises', 13 August 1965 Uon Silkin, Nature with Man; Ted Walker, Fox on a
Barn Door: Poems 1963-64; George MacBeth, A Doomsday Book; D.J. Enright, The Old Adam;
The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts; Frederick Grubb, A Vision of
Reality].
"14 -'18- a GCE Version', 29 October 1965: 551 [Bernard Bergonzi, Heroes' TwilighF Hugh
D. Ford, A Poets' War: British Poets and the Spanish Civil War].
'Bringing Gusto to Criticism', 16-23 December 2000 [A.C. Grayling, Hazlitt].

STAND

'Conrad Aiken's Selected Poems', 5:3, 1963: 49.

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Life in the Fast Lane to Literary Success', 3 November 1991: 111 [Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography].
'The Tough Guy of English Letters', 19 January 1992: 115 [Tom Paulin, Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State].
'The Mystery of Hawthorne', 8 March 1992: 110 [Edwin Haviland Miller, Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne].
'The Sorrows of Love and the Joys of Political Hate', 12 April 1992: 111 [The Gonne-Yeats Letters: 1893-1938, edited by Anna MacBride White].
'From "Ulysses9o "Penthouse', 24 May 1992: 111.
'A Russian in Venice', 21 June 1992: 108 [Joseph Brodsky, Watermark].
'A Pink Lady in Public Life', 9 August 1992: 111.
'Will Gilbert Adair Turn Into Stephen Fry?', 20 September 1992: 111 [Gilbert Adair, The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice; Stephen Fry, Paperweight].
'Why Make So Much Fuss about Madonna?', 25 October 1992: 111 [Madonna, Sex].
'Was Robert Burns Really a Reprobate?', 8 November 1992: 110 [James Mackay, A Biography of Robert Burns].
'Vidal Statistics', 10 January 1993:11.
'God and the Poems of W.H. Auden', 18 February 1993 [Anthony Hecht, The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden].
'Short Stories, Tall Orders', 21 February 1993: 10.
'Who's Who in Philip Roth?', 14 March 1993: 9[Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession].
'Did Bobby Moore Have Feet of Clay? Was There Another Side to the Golden Boy of 1966?', 9 May 1993: 9.
'The Self-Importance of Being Ernest', 20 June 1993: 9.
'Value of a Literary Valet', 12 September 1993: 11.
'Most Alcoholic of All Authors?', 10 October 1993 [Gordon Bowker, Pusued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry].
'Accidental Origins of Writers' Rights', 14 November 1993:9.
'Myth-Making for Britain', 20 March 1994: 10 [Ted Hughes, Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose].
'Not Mad Enough to Be A Genius', 3 April 1994 [Jay Parini, John Steinbeck: The Authorised Biography].
'The Most Contrary of Critics', 24 April 1994: 10 [Michael Wreszin, Dwight Macdonald: A Rebel in Defence of Tradition].
'Letters From the Poet's Poet. Ian Hamilton Discovers the Secret Side of Elizabeth Bishop', 1 May 1994: 11.
'Gambling Against History', 8 May 1994: 10[V.S. Naipaul, A Way in the World].
'Scott Fitzgerald's Big-Screen Life', 12 June 1994: 9 [Jeffrey Meyers, Scott Fitzgerald].
'The Man Who Knew It All: On His Centenary, Ian Hamilton Reasseses the Work and Reputation of Aldous Huxley', 24 July 1994: 9.
'Would Holden Have Liked it?', 7 August 1994:4 [J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye].
'Under Green Covers', 18 September 1994: 10 [John St Jorre, The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press; James Campbell, Paris lnterzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank].
'Lining Up With the Laureate', 23 October 1994: 10.
'Liverpool Down, Manchester Up', 4 December 1994: 13.
'The Rhymester Who Struck It Lucky', 19 March 1995: 11.
'Coming East or Going West', 16 April 1995: 11 [Malcolm Bradbury, Dangerous Pilgrimages:
Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the Novel].
'You Can't Keep a Good Myth Down', 21 May 1995: 8 [Peter Conrad, To Be Continued: Four Stories and Their Survival].
'The Faces Kingsley Amis Pulls', 11 June 1995: 11 [Eric Jacobs, Kingsley Amis: A Biography]. 'Laying Down the Laws of Literature', 16 July 1995 [Ian MacKillop, FR. Leavis: A Life in Criticism].
'Gawping Behind the Catwalk', 27 August 1995: 9.
'Women Beware Women', 1 7 September 1995 [Germaine Greer, Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet].
'Sex with Everything', 1 October 1995 [Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theatre].
'Gore's Love Affair with Himself', 15 October 1995: 17 [Gore Vidal, Palimpsest: A Memoir].
'Saving Burns from His Admirers', 29 October 1995 [lan Mcintyre, Dirt and Deity: A Life of Robert Burns].
'A Pro's Woes', 24 December 1995: 9.
'Why the Sixties Are Swinging Again', 4 February 1996: 7.
'Oxford's Dated New Guide to US Writers Some Reference Books Need More Than Revision', 18 February 1996: 8.
'George Orwell Versus the Publishers', 14 April 1996 [Peter Davison, George Orwell: A Literary Life].
'A Professor Deconstructed', 5 May 1996: 14 [Frank Kermode, Not Entitled: A Memoir].
'Huckleberry in Holograph', 26 May 1996: 14 [Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn].
'Telling Tales', 30 June 1996: 12.
'The Ribaldry of Robert Burns', 21 July 1996:13.
'The All-Purpose Wife', 29 September 1996: 14 [Ann Thwaite, Emily Tennyson].
'Signposts of Literature', 6 October 1996: 14 [The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, edited by John Sturrock; The Oxford Guide to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, edited by Jenny Stringer; Malcolm Bradbury, The Atlas of Literature].
'Poet Who Came in from the Cold', 27 October 1996: 14 [joseph Brodsky, On Grief and Reason and So Forth].
'Some Sons Do 'Ave 'Em', 10 November 1996: 15.
'The Yob's Lament', 1 December 1996: 15.
'Crack Up in Costa Rica', 19 january 1997: 14 [joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted].
'Praise is Praise is Praise', 9 February 1997: 15 [The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, edited by Edward M. Burns and Ulla F. Dydo with William Rice].
'Can Our Words Be Stolen?' 2 March 1997: 13 [Neal Bowers, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist].
'Kingsley's Corrections', 9 March 1997: 15 [Kingsley Amis, The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage].
'The Goal Standard', 23 March 1997: 3; reprinted as 'Three Managers: Busby, Shankly, Stein' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 221-228.
'To Be Perfectly Frank', 6 April 1997: 7.
'Performing Lawrence', 27 April1997: 14[Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence].
'Pynchon and On and On', 4 May 1997: 14 [Thomas Pynchon, Mason and Dixon].
'Roth's Respectable Guy', 25 May 1997: 14 [Philip Roth, American Pastoral].
'Rochester As Roué', 8 June 1997: 13.
'Call of the Wild Man', 6 july 1997: 15 [Alex Kershaw, Jack London: A Life].
'A Polymath's Progress', 7 August 1997 [George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life].
'A Sage Look at America', 17 August 1997: 12 [Gore Vidal, Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997].
'The Happy End of the Affair', 24 August 1997: 6 [Saul Bellow, The Actual].
'Women Who Frighten Men', 2 November 1997: 13.
'Kick and Tell Diaries', 7 December 1997: 14.
'A Mismatched Marriage', 25 January 1998: 7 [Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters].
'From Pet to Pariah', 15 February 1998: 7 [George Plimpton, Truman Capote].
'The joy of Being Joseph Heller', 8 March 1998: 15 [joseph Heller, Now and Then: A Memoir from Coney Island to Here].
'Poet of the Postbox', 29 March 1998: 14 [The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller].
'In Timeless Prose', 26 April 1998: 15 [jeffrey Archer, The Eleventh Commandment]. 'Finding the Words for War', 17 May 1998 [jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Makingof a War Poet. A Biography, Vol. 1: 1886-1918].
'Defensive Formation', 31 May 1998: 12 [Cohn Shindler, Manchester United Ruined My Life; Alan Shearer, My Life So Far Stella Orakwue, Pitch Invaders; Ruud Gullit, Ruud Gullit; Harry Harris, Zola].
'How Kerouac Missed the Boat', 14 June 1998: 15 [Barry Miles, Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats:
A Portrait].
'A Punch-Up with a Poet', 5 July 1998: 14 [Les Murray, Freddy Neptune].
'Facts about Fictions', 27 July 1998: 12 [Writing the Lives of Writers, edited by Warwick Gould and Thomas F. Staley].
'The Prophet's Profit', 2 August 1998: 12 [Robin Waterfield, Prophet: The Life and Times of Kabul Gibran].
'A Meeting of Bodies', 16 August 1998: 13 [Beloved Chicago Man, edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir,].
'The Secretive Satirist', 23 August 1998: 15 [Victoria Glendinning, Jonathan Swift].
'No More Mr Tough Guy', 8 November 1998: 14 [Michael Reynolds, Hemingway: The 1930s and The Young Hemingway].
'just Where Did It All Go Wrong?', 22 November 1998: 15 [Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents].
'For the Real Action, Look in the Stands', 6 December 1998: 15.
'Not Such a Harsh Frost After All', 10 january 1999: 14 [jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life].
'Between Me and We', 21 February 1999: 12 [Peter Porter, Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1961-1981, Vol. II: 1984-1999; Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love].
'A Future Without a Past', 21 March 1999: 14[PeterAckroyd, The Plato Papers].
'How Much Did He Make Up?', 4 April 1999: 13 [Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin].
'Off the Ball Incidents', 16 May 1999, 13. [David Yallop, How They Stole the Game].
'Reading Between the Lines', 23 May 1999: 12 [Edward Mendelson, LaterAuden].
'Millennium Reputations', 30 May 1999:15 [T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land].
'Summer Reading', 27 June 1999: 12.
'A War Poet's Battles with Peace', 4 July 1999: 14 [john Stuart Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon (1886- 1967)].
'Homage to Catalonia', 11 july 1999: 13 [jimmy Burns, Barca].
'Tough, but Not Tough Enough', 18 July 1999: 13.
'A Hard Working Mystery', 8 August1999 [Lavinia Greacen,J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer].
'Man-U and Superman', 22 August 1999, 12: [Alex Ferguson, Managing My Life].
'When in Doubt, Say F', 19 September 1999: 15 [The F Word, edited by jesse Sheidlower].
'Poetry's New Pecking Order', 3 October 1999: 14 [The Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks].
'A Scholarly Look at a Dilettante', 31 October 1999: 17 [Fred Kaplan, Gore Vidal: A Biography].
'The Greatest and the Rest', 28 November 1999: 16.
'Greatness Eluded Him', 12 December 1999 [David Leeming, Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism].
'The Bad Book of the Film of the Book', 13 February 2000: 14 [William Cash, The Third Woman].
'The Martyr Who Wasn't', 2 April 2000: 12 [Erica Wagner, Ariel's Gift; Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-62, edited by Karen V. Kukil].
'A Contest to the Death', 9 April 2000: 14 [Scott Donaldson, Hemingway vs Fitzgerald]. 'The Last Kick of His Game', 23 April 2000: 14 [Stanley Matthews, The Way It Was]. 'In Praise of Brain Power', 14 May 2000: 15 [The Complete Poems of William Empson, edited by John Haffenden].
'The New Model Martin Amis', 21 May 2000:12 [Martin Amis, Experience].
'A Shark with Pretty Teeth', 27 August 2000: 13 [Frances Kiernan, Seeing Mary Plain]. 'Ali Baba is Out, All, Tariq Is In', 24 September 2000: 14 [Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Margaret Drabble].
'Don't Mention the Score', 1 October 2000: 13 [David Downing, The Best of Enemies].
'The Central Character', 22 October 2000: 15 [james Atlas, Saul Bellow].
'The Brilliance of a Buffoon', 29 October 2000: 15 [Adam Sissman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task].
'The Big Mistake of Growing Up', 5 November 2000: 11 [Margaret Ann Salinger, Dream Catcher].
'A Team of Mixed Ability', 3 December 2000: 15.
'Greatness Eluded Him', 12 December 2000: 14.
'The Case of the Invisible Woman', 18 February 2001: 13.
'He Wrote It to Be Famous', 4 March 2001: 13.
'An Unorthodox Eastender', 11 March 2001: 13.

THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Devolution', 13 February 1977: 15.
'Nude Magazine Cover', 20 February 1977: 32.
'Candidate for Oxford Poetry Professorship', 23 April 1978.
'Travelling Hopefully', 10 August 1980: 31.
'Origins of the Poetic Species', 28 September 1980: 42.
'The Restoration ot Rochester', 12 October 1980:43 [The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited and introduced by Jeremy Treglown].
'Are You Sitting Comfortably?', 16 November 1980: 43.
'Facing Up to an Optical Illusion', 30 May 1982 [Peter Conrad, Television: The Medium and Its Manners].
'Gore Vidal vs. The Squirrel', 22 August 1982 [Gore Vidal, Pink Triangle and Yellow Star].
'Pangs of Accord', 10 October 1982 [Christopher Reid, Pea Soup].
'The Poetry Pioneers', 31 October 1982 [The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion].
'The Artist as Young Bard', 12 June 1983 [Dylan Thomas, The Collected Stories].
'A Companionable Critic', 24 July 1983 [D.j. Enright, A Mania for Sentences].
'A Diarist's Kiss of Death', 7 August 1983 [Edmund Wilson, The Forties].
'The Manhood of Mailer', 2 October 1983 [Hilary Mills, Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, Pieces and Pontifications].
'The Shadows of the Salon', 9 October 1983 [Frederic Prokosch, Voices and The Asiatics]. 'The Launching of Ulysses', 18 March 1984 [Noel Riley Fitch, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation].
'Steinbeck the Celebrity', 8 April 1984 [Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck].
'Georges Simenon and the Women', 2 September 1984 [Georges Simenon, Intimate Memoirs].
'Kazin's Critical Chats', 6 January 1985 [Alfred Kazin, An American Procession].
'The Legend of Scott and Zelda', 17 February 1985 [James R. Mellow, Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald].
'Philip Larkin 1922-1 985: An Appreciation by Ian Hamilton and a Poem Written by Larkin in 1981', 8 December 1985.
'Mr Bones and the Psychic Voyager', 4 February 1990 [John Berryman, Collected Poems 1937-71 and The Dream Songs].
'The Grapes of Wrath', 18 February 1990.
'A Damned Serious Affair', 4 March 1990; reprinted as 'Wallace Stevens' in Walking Possession, 1994: 150-153 [Opus Posthumous by Wallace Stevens, edited by Milton j. Bates].
'All Singing, All Dancing', 4 February 1996.
'Nothing to Declare but Her Genius', 7 April 1996 [Phillip Herring, Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes].
'Getting to Grips with the Words', 17 March 1996 [John Irving, The Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir].
'That Was the Year That Was', 9 June 1996.
'The One-Track Mind', 6 May 2001.

THUMBSCREW

'The Buried Life: Elizabeth Bishop', 2, 1995: 30-42.

THE TIMES

'How Well Have They Worn? - 12: The Catcher in the Rye', 24 March 1966.
'Signs for Southend United FC', 4 September 1968: 13.
'The Little Magazines', 13 September 1976: 8.
'Cleared of Negligence over Aircraft Crash', 25 June 1976: 2.
'The Cult of Celebrity', 11 August 1985.
'The Book and the Box: A Conversation Between Ian Hamilton and Melvyn Bragg', 29 December 1985.
'All Our Yesterdays', 8 june 1996; reprinted as 'All Our Yesterdays: Remembering the 1966 World Cup' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 209-214.
'Just Mad About the Boy', 18 May 1998.

THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'New Names, Old Hat', 3222,28 November 1963: 995 [New Poems: A PEN Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, edited by Lawrence Durrell].
'Artful Make-Up', 3238, 19 March 1964: 228 [Daniel Hoffmann, The City of Satisfactions; Alan Dugan, Poems 2; Sandra Hochman, Manhattan Pastures].
'In Military Terms', 3238, 19 March 1964: 228.
'Crime and Merriment', 3242, 16 April 1964: 305 [Michael Baldwin, A Mouthful of Gold].
'Other New Novels', 3242, 16 April 1964: 305 [Michael Campbell, The Princess in England; Corinna Cochrane, The Turning Point; J.A. Michener, Caravans].
'Syllables Under Stress', 3243, 23 April 1964: 344 [B.S. Johnson, Poems; Phillip Callow, Turning Point; Keith Wright, Western Time].
'No Ideas but in Things', 3245, 7 May 1964: 396 [William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Breuguel and Other Poems; Elder Olson: Collected Poems; William Dickey, Interpreter's House].
'Rustic and Urbane', 3260, 20 August 1964: 748 [James Dickey, Helmets; John Updike, Telephone Poles; Bias de Otero, Twenty Poems].
'One Man's River', 3263, 10 September 1964: 842 [William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Books 1- VI.
'At the Heel of the Hunt', 3269, 22 October 1964: 960 [Thomas Blackburn, A Breathing Space; Brian Guinness, The Rose in the Tree].
'Soft Finger', 3270, 29 October 1964: 980 [James Dickey, The Suspect in Poetry].
'Uplift in Old Sustainers', 3270, 29 October 1964: 980 [Richard Eberhart, The Quarry; ML. Rosenthal, Blue Boy on Skates].
'Poetry Puts Ox to Rights', 3289, 11 March 1965: 196 [Marianne Moore, The Arctic Ox; David Ignatow, Figures of the Human; Oscar Williams, Selected Poems].
'Sweating It Out', 3323,4 November 1965:982 [l.M. Parsons, Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War].
'Hot Money', 3324, 11 November 1965: 1003.
'Songs Among the Ruins', 3326, 25 November 1965: 1068 [reprinted in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 11-18].
'Dutiful Heirs', 3329, 16 December 1965: 1179.
'Periodical Studies', 3334, 20 January 1966: 63.
'Any Questions', 3339, 24 February 1966: 143.
'One Man's Worship', 3340, 3 March 1966: 167.
'A Machine & Sympathy', 3342, 17 March 1966: 223.
'Well-Bred', 3342, 17 March 1966: 224.
'Ps & Qs', 3349, 5 May 1966: 387.
'Now Read In', 3350, 12 May 1966: 387.
'Ancestral Figure', 3353, 2 June 1966: 496 [Adam, No. 300, edited by Miron Grindea].
'Speak Easy', 3353, 2 June 1966: 494.
'The Hungry Writer', 3355, 16 June 1966: 496.
'Dreams and Responsibilities', 3357, 3ojune 1966: 555.
'The Days of the Calendar', 3360,21 July 1966: 635.
'Poet Zoo', 3364, 18 August 1966: 743.
'Off Campus', 3370, 29 September 1966: 899.
'The Panel Game', 3373, 20 October 1966: 959.
'The Panel Game, II', 3376, 10 November 1966: 1023.
'The Shock of Recognition', 3379, 1 December 1966: 1116 [Peter Fryer, Private Cases - Public Scandal; Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People; Sine, Massacre].
'Doggerel in a Manger', 3382, 22 December 1966: 1189.
'Objectionable', 3388, 2 February 1967: 87.
'Macbird', 3389, 9 February 1967: 107.
'On the Shelf: Poetry in the Public Library', 3393,9 March 1967: 177.
'Responsibilities', 3395, 23 March 1967: 243.
'Poetry in Mss', 3400, 27 April 1967: 357.
'Foul Play?', 3400, 27 April 1967: 357.
'The Dons Have It', 3403, 18 May 1967: 419.
'Gone with the Wind', 3405, 1 June 1967: 485 [Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne, Fifty Writers We Could Do Without].
'Visualizing', 3405, 1 June 1967: 487.
Poetry International', 3410, 6 July 1967: 599.
'Limits of Literature', 3413, 27Ju1y 1967: 651.
Editorial, 3413, 27 July 1967: 672.
Editorial, 3423, 5 October 1967: 938.
'Uncollected', 3439, 25 January 1968: 85.
'Public Relations', 3448,28 March 1968: 317.
'The Little Magazine - IV: The Criterion', 3452, 25 April 1968: 430 [reprinted as 'The Straight and Narrow' in The Little Magazines, 1976: 67-80].
'TLS6', 3456, 23 May 1968: 529.
'Ten Per Centers', 3463, 11 July 1968: 729.
'Mincing Words', 3465, 25 July 1968: 767.
'Picture Books', 3471, 9 September 1968: 945.
'Plugging the Gaps', 3473, 19 September 1968: 1051.
'Poor Relations', 3477, 17 October 1968: 1251.
'T.S. Eliot and the TLS', 3480,7 November 1968: 1251.
'Many Thanks', 3487, 26 December 1968: 1455.
'Penguin 3000', 3504, 24 April 1969: 438.
'Between Mammon and the Muse', 3517, 24 July 1969: 791.
'Packaged for Gluesville', 3517, 24 July 1969: 808 [Mario Puzo, The Godfather, Norman Bogner, The Madonna Complex].
'Fools Rush In', 3520, 14 August 1969: 897 [Barbara Skelton, A Love Match].
'Altering the Modes of Consciousness: The Ecstatic, Infinite Idealism of Hart Crane', 3527, 2 October 1969: 111 7 [The Complete Poems and Selected Prose and Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Brom Weber; R.W. Butterfield, The Broken Arc: A Study of Hart Crane].
'Cut Short', 3532,6 November 1969: 1273 [V.5. Pritchett, Blind Love and Other Stories].
'Little Magazines in Reprint: the Profits of Patronage', 3546, 12 February 1970: 177.
'Surviving Most Subtilly', 3578, 25 September 1970: 1075 [Dan Jacobson, The Rape of Tamar].
'The Poet at Home', 3578, 25 September 1970: 1075 [Roy Fuller, The Carnal Island].
'On Not Rocking the Boat', 3581, 16 October 1970: 1183 [John Updike, Bech: A Book].
'Ireland Intensified', 3587, 27 November 1970:1378 John McGahern, Nightlines].
'A Mouthful of Blood', 3593, 8 January 1971: 8; reprinted as 'Ted Hughes: Crow in A Poetry Chronicle, 1973: 165-170.
'Leisurely Ways', 3596, 29 January 1971: 113 [Anthony West, David Rees Among Others]. 'Incestuous Undertones', 3599, 19 February 1971: 207 [Wagner Literary Magazine, Nos. 1-4; Angel Hair, Nos. 106; Neon, Nos. 1-4; Folder, 1-4; City Lights Journal, Nos. 1-2; The San Francisco Earthquake, Vol. 1: 1967-1 968].
'Interment of the Intellectual', 3599, 19 February 1971: 206 [Poetr,' London, 5 Volumes; Art and Letters, July 1917 to Spring 1920].
'The Talented Miss Highsmith', 3630, 24 September 1971: 1147.
'Nowhere to Go', 3632, 8 October 1971: 1199 [VS. Naipaul, In a Free State].
'Viewpoint', 3676, 11 August 1972: 658.
'Viewpoint', 3683, 6 October 1972: 194.
'Viewpoint', 3706, 16 March 1973: 294.
'Viewpoint', 3718, 8 June 1973: 642.
'Turnstile Press', 3772, 27 June 1974: 669.
'Fiction and the Voting Public' (as 'Edward Pygge'), 3787, 4 October 1974: 1076.
Editorial, 3826, 11 July 1975: 760.
'The Call of the Cool', 4138, 23 July 1982: 782 [Thom Gunn, The Passages of Joy and The Occasions of Poetry].
'Among the Muckers', 4154, 12 November 1982: 1243 [Short Stories from the Second World War, edited by Dan Davin].
'Heading for a Showdown', 4252, 28 September 1984: 1076 [John Pikoulis, Alun Lewis: A Life].
'Dense But Democratic', 4260, 23 November 1984: 1348 [Raritan].
'Striving and Stranded', 19 August 1988; reprinted as 'Jean Stafford' in Walking Possession, 1994: 22-26 [David Roberts, Jean Stafford: A Biography].
'Posing on a Titghtrope', 4480, 10 February 1989: 131 [Michael Shelden, Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon].
'A Talent of the Shallows', 4511, 15 September 1989: 999; reprinted as 'Richard Wilbur' in Walking Possession, 1994: 117-122 [Richard Wilbur, New & Collected Poems].
'Bonny Prince Charlatan', 4522, 17 December 1989: 1335 [Tambimuttu: A Bridge Between Two Worlds, edited by Jane Williams].
'Changing to Neutral', 4633, 17 January 1992: 18-19 [IH recalls his years as poetry and fiction editor at the TLS for the paper's 90th anniversary issue].
'Mocking the Meat It Feeds on', 4657, 3 July 1992: 21 [Robert Altman's film, 'The Player'].
'Self's the Man', 4696,2 April 1993:3-4; reprinted as'Philip Larkin: 3. The Biography' in Walking Possession, 1994: 137-145; and reprinted again in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 321-329 [Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life].
'The Embarrassing Pursuit', 4752, 29 April 1994: 16-18 [IH discusses his research for Robert Lowell: A Biography.
'Edmund Wilson's Wounds', 4830, 27 October 1995: 4-5; reprinted in The Trouble with Money: 31-39 [Jeffrey Meyers, Edmund Wilson: A Biography; From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson, selected and introduced by David Castronovo].
'The Road Not Taken', 4891, 27 December 1996: 24 [Keith Ovenden, A Fighting Withdrawal: The Life of Dan Davin: Writer, Soldier, Publisher].
"'These are Damned Times", 11 July 1997; reprinted as 'Arnold's Letters, Finally' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 180-192 [The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. Two: 1860-1865, edited by Cecil Y. Lang].
'Dreaming On Down Under', 5060, 24 March 2000: 36 [Patricia Dobrez, Michael Dransfield's Lives].
'Some Splintered Garland', 5085, 15 September 2000: 6-7 [Paul Mariani, The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane; The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon].
'Holding On', 9-15 October 2000; reprinted as 'Andrew Motion' in Walking Possession, 1994:
162-165 [Andrew Motion, Natural Causes].

VANITY FAIR

'What Made Salinger So Mad?', 51:5, May 1988: 158-1 68 [Excerpt from In Search of J.D. Salinger].

VOGUE

'The Secret History', 1994 [Jan Marsh, Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life].
'Chunnel Vision', 185:3, March 1995: 286-290; reprinted as'Chunnel Crossing' in The Trouble with Money, 1998: 243-249.

WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

'James Merrill and the Spirit of Poetry', 27 March 1983:8; reprinted as 'James Merrill' in Walking Possession, 1994: 146-149 [James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover From the First Nine; and James Merrill: Essays in Criticism, edited by David Lehman and Charles Berger].
'At the Right Place at the Right Time', 19 February 1984: 3 [H.D. Collected Poems 1912-1944, edited by Louis L. Martz; Barbara Guest, Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World].
'Portrait of the Poet as a Letter Writer', 4 May 1986: 1 [Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters, edited by Paul Ferris].
'The Indian Summer of Edmund Wilson', 14 September 1986: X5 [Edmund Wilson, The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, edited by Leon Edel].

 
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