‘In Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky,’ Granta, November 2020

Letter to a Young Poet: Writing Poems, A Personal ABC , ‘The Scores’, Edinburgh, Autumn 2019

On Editing and Redrafting a Poem, ‘King’s English’, March 2016   

‘The Hand of Art: Czesław Miłosz – Form, Communication and Reality’ Inaugural Miłosz Lecture, given at the Miłosz Festival, Krakow, 2015

‘Kathe Kollwitz and The Grieving Parents’, Episode 10 in Radio 3 series, Minds at War, July 2014

Tennyson: Echo and Harmony, Music and Thought’, Oxford Handbook to Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bevis. 2013, OUP, Chapter 19

‘Sylvia Plath: Idol, Victim, Pioneer,’ Independent January 2013

Art, Migration and Identity – The Guardian 2012

Housman Society lecture, ‘The Name and Nature of Poetry,’ Hay on Wye Festival, 2010

Bruegel’s Landscape with flight into Egypt – Courtauld Gallery 2009 (if you have Flash, you can hear this talk online at The Guardian)

‘The unforgivable truth’: on Israel’s 60th anniversary, Israeli author S. Yizhar’s novella Khirbet Khizeh Prospect Magazine, June 2008

The wishing stones, poetry in Mandalay – P.E.N. News 2003

Talking to Paul Muldoon – Independent 2002

Talking to Colm Toibin – Independent 1999

The Conjuror, The Parrot and The Past – International Writer’s Reunion, Lahti, Finland, Midsummer 1995