Poems

Northbound and Dark Green House, in the Spectator

Short story

A Date with Hugh MacDiarmid, in the London Magazine

Reviewing

Close But Not Too Close, on Judith Hermann
Tonight You Dine with Christ!, on David Greig
Waiting for the Fall, on Thomas Brussig and Clemens Meyer
Over the Sea to Skye, on Flora Fraser and Flora Macdonald
The Memory of an Angel, on Manon Gropius
Where the Dance Is, on Samantha Harvey, on crying and sleeping
Unsentimental Journey, on Prince Pückler-Muskau
Total Impressions, on the Humboldt brothers
From Tahiti to the Terror, on Georg Forster
Tumbling Lassies, on Scottish women writers
Heine and Horses, on German Radio
I’ll Take the Pork, on German food
My Cup of Tea, on becoming British
Respectfully, the Fishes, on E. O. Plauen
Down the Drop Hole, on Gamekeeping
Noble Savages? on Humboldt’s travels
Unripe Fruit, on Humboldt and unrequited love
Save the Trees, on urban nature
Talent Contests, on art, angst and masculinity
The Silence of Friends, on Jenny Erpenbeck
Look at It Now, on Bill Bryson
Humboldt under the Palm Trees
A Head of Clay, on Friedrich Schiller’s Joan of Arc