Essays and articles
Introduction to Best New Zealand Poems 2005
Creative Reading — Afterword to Writing
at the Edge of the Universe, edited by Mark Williams
(Canterbury University Press, November 2004)
Catholic
With a Small c — in The Source of the Song: New
Zealand Writers on Catholicism,
edited by Mark Williams. Victoria University Press, 1995
Surviving
Desire: The Poetry of John Tranter — Landfall 187,
Autumn 1994.
The Ferris
Wheel: The Making of a Poem — Sport 11, Spring
1993; Stout Centre Review, Sept 1993
Entertaining
Possibilities: Six Contemporary New Zealand Poets —
Meanjin (Melbourne) Vol 51 No 3, Spring 1992. Literary
Half-Yearly (Mysore, India), 33,1, Jan 1992
Fusion
Poetry: Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Gregory O'Brien,
Vincent O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Smither —
Stand (new series), vol 3 no. 3, Sept 2000
Louise
Gluck and the Public Face of a Private Artist — The
New York Times, Nov 4, 2003
Adding
Len Lye to the Book of 20th-Century Art — International
Herald Tribune, May 4, 2001
Online
and Onstage, Poetry Finds New Homes — International
Herald Tribune, October 5, 2000
Keri Hulme:
Of Death and Fishing — The Evening Post, Nov 5,
1994
Maurice Gee: Our Superb Storyteller — The Evening Post, July 3, 1993.