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    Reviews & essays

    Review (forthcoming): Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions, by Steven Connor 

    Philosophy and Literature, 2022

    Samuel Beckett’s blushing body of work

    Shame and Medicine blog

    The Poem Not Taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn’t

    Wild Court, 1 April 2021

    Review: Samuel Beckett’s How It Is: Philosophy in Translation, by Anthony Cordingley

    Journal of Beckett Studies 29.1, 2020

    Beckett's humility/humiliation nexus

    Indiana University Press Blog, 2019

    Review: The Wartime Diary of WD Terry: A ‘Safrican’ at Cambridge, with selected letters 1938-1941, by Laurence Wright

    English Academy Review 35.2, 2018

    Review: Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, by Fiona Moola (ed.)

    English Academy Review 35.2, 2018

    Review: Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid Writing, by Leon de Kock

    English Academy Review 35.1, 2018

    Review: The Sellout, by Paul Beatty

    The Scores, 2016

    Robert Frost John F. Kennedy
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    Poetry

    'Except Names'

    Stanzas Poetry Magazine (forthcoming 2021)

    'To Tarshish'

    New Contrast 169, 2015

    'Alcyone Unheard' & 'Valediction'

    Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Anthology vol 3, 2013

    'Ablatus' & 'Babel'

    New Contrast 153, 2011

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