Reviews, Reviewees - M

Louis MacNeice
(The Strings are False)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1982)

Louis MacNeice
(Letters from Iceland )

Reviewed by Mark Thompson (1986)

Louis MacNeice
(Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Michael Longley)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1990)

Louis MacNeice
(Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1991)

Louis MacNeice
(I Crossed the Minch, with an introduction by Tom Herron; Selected Poems, edited by Michael Longley; and The Strings Are False - an unfinished autobiography, with a new preface by Derek Mahon)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (2008)

Kona Macphee
(Tails)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2005)

Barry MacSweeney
(Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2003)

Barry MacSweeney
(Horses in Boiling Blood)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2005)

Barry MacSweeney
(Desire Lines: Unselected Poems 1966â2000)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2019)

Paul Maddern
(Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry)

Reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2023)

Charles Madge
(Of Love, Time and Places: Selected Poems)

Reviewed by David Herd (1995)

Anthony Madrid
(I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say)

Reviewed by Adam Crothers (2013)

Valerio Magrelli
(Vanishing Points: Poems translated by Jamie McKendrick)

Reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely (2011)

Sarah Maguire
(Spilt Milk)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)

Sarah Maguire
(The Invisible Mender)

Reviewed by Ruth Fainlight (1997)

Ashok Mahajan
(Goan Vignettes and Other Poems)

Derek Mahon
(The Hunt By Night )

Reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1983)

Derek Mahon
(The Hudson Letter)

Reviewed by Justin Quinn (1996)

Derek Mahon
(Harbour Lights)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2006)

Derek Mahon
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2007)

Derek Mahon
(An Autumn Wind)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2010)

Derek Mahon
(Raw Material)

Reviewed by Joey Connolly (2013)

Derek Mahon
(New Selected Poems)

Reviewed by David Spittle (2016)

Derek Mahon
(Against the Clock)

Reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2019)

Philip Mairet
(Autobiographical and Other Papers, edited by C. H. Sisson)

Reviewed by C.J. Fox (1982)

Maitreyabandhu
(Yarn )

Reviewed by Chris Beckett and Isao Miura (2016)

Adewale Maja-Pearce
(The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English, edited by Adewale Maja-Pearce)

Clarence Major
(Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998)

Reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)

Peter Makin
(Pound's Cantos)

Reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (1986)

Peter Makin
(Basil Bunting: The Shaping of his Verse)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (1995)

Peter Makin
(Neck of the Woods)

Reviewed by Timothy Harris (2016)

Ileana Malancioiu
(After the Raising of Lazarus, translated by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain)

Reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2006)

Belkis Cuza Malé
(Woman in the Front Lines, a bi-lingual selection of poems, translated by Pamela Carmell)

Reviewed by J.M. Cohen (1989)

Dora Malech
(Shore Ordered Ocean)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2010)

Stéphane Mallarmé
(A Tomb for Anatole, translated and with an introduction by Paul Auster )

Reviewed by John Pilling (1985)

Stéphane Mallarmé
(Poems of Mallarmé, a bilingual edition with versions in English, an introduction and an illustration by Brian Coffey)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1991)

Stéphane Mallarmé
(Sonnets)

Reviewed by Adam Watt (2009)

Gary Maller
(Night Breathing)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)

David Malouf
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1993)

Kim Maltman
(Technologies/Installations)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1992)

Jean Mambrino
(The Inner Gold, translated by Jonathan Griffin)

Reviewed by John Clark (1981)

Harry Man
(UtÃ¸ya Thereafter: Poems in Memory of the 2011 Norway Attacks)

Reviewed by Vik Shirley (2023)

Osip Mandelstam
(Stone, translated and introduced by Robert Tracy)

Reviewed by Stuart Hood (1981)

Osip Mandelstam
(The Moscow Notebooks, translated by Richard and Elizabeth McKane)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1991)

Osip Mandelstam
(Selected Poems translated by James Greene)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1992)

Osip Mandelstam
(A Necklace of Bees: selected poems, translated by Maria Enzensberger)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1993)

Osip Mandelstam
(The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by Richard and Elizabeth McKane)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1996)

Gerald Mangan
(Waiting for the Storm)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1992)

James Clarence Mangan
(The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan, Volumes 1 & 2: Poems 1818-1837 & Poems 1838-1844)

Reviewed by David Wheatley (1997)

James Clarence Mangan
(Poems, edited and introduced by David Wheatley)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2004)

André Mangeot
(Blood Rain)

Reviewed by Alastair Llewellyn-Smith (2020)

Bill Manhire
( Zoetropes )

Rachel Manley
( A Light Left On)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)

Klaus Mann
(The Pious Dance, translated by Laurence Senelick)

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1989)

Arji Manuelpillai
(Mutton Rolls)

Reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2020)

Jack Mapanje
(Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing, edited by Jack Mapanje)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2003)

Jack Mapanje
(The Last of the Sweet Bananas)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2005)

Jack Mapanje
(Beasts of Nalunga)

Reviewed by Gavin Hudson (2007)

Jack Mapanje
(Greetings from Grandpa)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2018)

Javier Marías
(Venice: An Interior)

Reviewed by Lucy Cheseldine (2019)

Walter de la Mare
(Behold, this Dreamer)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1986)

Joan Margarit
(Strangely Happy)

Reviewed by Marcus Smith (2013)

E.A. Markham
(Human Rites)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1985)

E.A. Markham
(Living in Disguise)

Reviewed by Eavan Boland (1987)

E.A. Markham
(Letter from Ulster & The Hugo Poems)

Reviewed by Douglas Reid Skinner (1994)

Jehane Markham
(Thirty Poems)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)

Robyn Marsack
(The Cave of Making: The Poetry of Louis MacNeice)

Reviewed by Robert Fraser (1984)

Robyn Marsack
(Open Guides to Literature - Sylvia Plath)

Reviewed by Simon Kent (1993)

Megan Marshall
(Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast)

Reviewed by Jonathan Ellis (2017)

Elizabeth A. Marsland
(The Nation's Cause: French, English and Gennan Poetry of the First World War)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1992)

Robert Marteau
(Two Long Poems; 'Treatise on White and Tincture' and 'Atlante', translated by Barry Callaghan)

Reviewed by Chris Miller (1992)

Bernice Martin
(A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change)

Reviewed by David J. Levy (1983)

Cheryl Martin

Reviewed by George Parfitt (1992)

David Martin
(The Breaking of the Image: A Sociology of Christian Theory and Practice)

Reviewed by David J. Levy (1982)

G. D. Martin
(The Architecture of Experience: The Role of Language and Literature in the Construction of the World)

Reviewed by David J. Levy (1982)

Robert Bernard Martin
(With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald)

Reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1986)

William Martin
(Cracknrigg)

Reviewed by Chris McCully (1984)

William Martin
(Marra Familia)

Reviewed by Fenella Copplestone (1994)

Dionisio D. Martínez
(Bad Alchemy)

Reviewed by Vona Groarke (1997)

Dionisio D. Martínez

Reviewed by Patrick Mackie (2002)

Toby Martinez de las Rivas
(Terror)

Reviewed by Adam Crothers (2015)

Toby Martinez de las Rivas
(Black Sun)

Reviewed by Andrew Frayn (2018)

Karl Marx
(Evening Hour, translated and introduced by Philip Wilson)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2023)

John Masefield
(Letters to Reyna, edited by William Buchan)

Reviewed by Peter Levi (1985)

H.A. Mason
(The Tragic Plane)

Reviewed by Martin Jarrett-Kerr (1988)

Harold Massingham
(Sonatas and Dreams)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)

Dexter Masters
(The Accident)

Reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)

Timothy Materer
(Wyndham Lewis the Novelist)

Reviewed by Alan Young (1977)

Aidan Mathews
(According to the Small Hours)

Reviewed by Sebastian Barker (1999) Reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)

Roland Mathias
(Burning Brambles, Selected Poems 1944-1979 )

Reviewed by Sam Adams (1985)

Roland Mathias
(A Ride Through The Wood, Essays on Anglo-Welsh Literature)

Reviewed by Dyfnallt Morgan (1987)

Roland Mathias
(The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias, compiled and edited by Sam Adams)

Reviewed by Robert P. Jones (2003)

Naoko Matsubara
(Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara, English translation and annotation by Charles de Wolf, book design by Yoshiki Waterhouse)

Reviewed by Timothy Harris (2003)

Lila Matsumoto
(Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water)

Reviewed by Hal Coase (2022)

Geoffrey Matthews
(War Poems)

Reviewed by Glen Cavaliero (1990)

Marc Matthews
(A Season of Sometimes)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)

T. S. Matthews
(Under the Influence)

Reviewed by James. F Mathias (1980)

William Matthews
(Time and Money)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (1996)

William Matthews
(After All: Last Poems)

Reviewed by David Yezzi (1999)

John Matthias
(Turns)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1978)

John Matthias
(Crossing)

Reviewed by Alison Armstrong (1983)

John Matthias
(A Gathering of Ways)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1991)

John Matthias
(Reading Old Friends: Essays, Reviews, and Poems on Poetics 1975-1990)

Reviewed by Tess Lewis (1992)

John Matthias
(A Gathering of Ways)

Reviewed by Brian Morton (1992)

John Matthias
(Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias, Edited by Robert Archambeau)

Reviewed by Alison Armstrong (1999)

John Matthias
(Pages: New Poems and Cuttings)

Reviewed by Robert Archambeau (2000)

John Matthias
(Working Progress, Working Title)

Reviewed by Robert Archambeau (2004)

John Matthias
(New Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Alex Davis (2005)

John Matthias
(At Large and Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems)

Reviewed by Hilary Davies (2017)

John Matthias
(Living with a Visionary)

Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (2024)

Nancy Mattson
(Vision on Platform 2)

Reviewed by Leah Fritz (2019)

Bejan Matur
(In the Temple of a Patient God, translated by Ruth Christie)

Reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2005)

Maximianus
(The Elegies, edited and translated by A. M. Juster with an introduction by Michael Roberts)

Reviewed by Evan Jones (2018)

Hugh Maxton
(The Noise of the Fields)

Reviewed by A. P. Swarbrick (1980)

Hugh Maxton
(Jubilee for Renegades)

Reviewed by Andrew Swarbrick (1983)

Hugh Maxton
(The Puzzle Tree Ascendant)

Reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1990)

Glyn Maxwell
(Tale of the Mayor's Son)

Glyn Maxwell
(Out of the Rain)

Reviewed by Fenella Copplestone (1993)

Glyn Maxwell
(Rest for the Wicked)

Reviewed by Darrell Hinchcliffe (1996)

Glyn Maxwell
(The Boys at Twilight)

Reviewed by Sophie Hannah (2001)

Glyn Maxwell
(On Poetry)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2013)

Adrian May
(Comedy of Masculinity: Songs and Poems)

Reviewed by Henry King (2015)

Vladimir Mayakovsky
(VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and EL LISSITSKY For the Voice and Voices of the Revolution, edited by Patricia Railing)

Reviewed by Tess Mann (2001)

Vladimir Mayakovsky
(Volodya: Selected Works edited by Rosy Carrick)

Reviewed by Ross Cogan (2016)

Jane Mayhall
(Sleeping Late on Judgment Day)

Reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2004)

Madeline Mayne
(The Lord Sun)

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1987)

Federico Mayor
(Patterns, translated by Rosemary Wiltshire)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1994)

Jean-Jacques Mayoux
(D. H. Lawrence, Poemes, Chronologie, introduction, traduction et notes)

Reviewed by George Buchanan (1977)

Friedericke Mayröcker
(Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006, translated by Richard Dove)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2008)

Jerome Mazzaro
(Postmodern American Poetry)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)

Rhona McAdam
(Old Habits)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1995)

James McAuley
(Poetry, essays and personal commentary edited by Leonie Kramer)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)

John McAuliffe
(The Way In)

Reviewed by Hilary Davies (2017)

Joan McBreen
(Map and Atlas)

Reviewed by Cian Murphy (2017)

Chris McCabe
(Edited by Chris McCabe and Victoria Bean The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21^st Century)

Reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2016)

Chris McCabe
(The Triumph of Cancer)

Reviewed by Dominic Leonard (2019)

Richie McCaffery
(First Hare)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)

Shara McCallum
(No Ruined Stone)

Reviewed by Shash Trevett (2022)

David R. McCann
((ed.), The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry)

Reviewed by Peter Robinson (2005)

Olivia McCannon
(Exactly My Own Length)

Reviewed by Jane Draycott (2013)

Peter McCarey
(Town Shanties)

Reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1992)

Peter McCarey
(Find an Angel and Pick a Fight)

Reviewed by Alexander Hutchison (2014)

Patricia McCarthy
(A Second Skin)

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1986)

Thomas McCarthy
(The Sorrow Garden)

Reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)

Thomas McCarthy
(The Non-Aligned Storyteller)

Reviewed by C.B. McCully (1986)

Thomas McCarthy
(The Lost Province)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (1998)

Thomas McCarthy
(Mr Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Michael Duggan (2000)

Thomas McCarthy
(The Last Geraldine Officer)

Reviewed by John McAuliffe (2010)

J.D. McClatchy
(Scenes from Another Life)

Reviewed by Andrew Swarbrick (1984)

J.D. McClatchy
(Twenty Questions)

Reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)

J.D. McClatchy
(Division of Spoils. Selected Poems and Hazmat)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2004)

Gail McConnell
(The Sun is Open)

Reviewed by Dominic Leonard (2022)

Michael McCrum
(Thomas Arnold: Headmaster. A Reassessment.)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1990)

Andrew McCulloch
(The Lincolnshire Rising)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)

Margery McCulloch
(Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist)

Reviewed by Steven E. Smith (1994)

Chris McCully
(Time Signatures)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1994)

Colleen McDannell
(Heaven, A History.)

Reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1990)

Philip McDonagh
(Carraroe in Saxony)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2004)

Ian McDonald
(Between Silence and Silence)

Reviewed by Ian Dieffenthaller (2004)

Peter McDonald
(Adam's Dream)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1996)

Peter McDonald
(Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2003)

Peter McDonald
(Pastorals)

Reviewed by Andrew McNeillie (2005)

Peter McDonald
(Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-century Poetry )

Reviewed by John McAuliffe (2013)

Christian McEwen
((ed.), Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry )

Reviewed by Avril Horner (1989)

Christian McEwen
(In the Wake of Home)

Reviewed by Sarah Wardle (2005)

Jerome McGaan
(Black Riders: The Visible Language Of Modernism)

Reviewed by Miles Champion (1993)

James McGonigal
(Passage / An Pasaíste)

Reviewed by Richard Price (2005)

Roger McGough
(Defying Gravity)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)

Roger McGough
(Everyday Eclipses)

Reviewed by Caroline Bird (2002)

Medbh McGuckian
(On Ballycastle Beach)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)

Medbh McGuckian
(Marconi's Cottage)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)

Medbh McGuckian
(The Flower Master and Other Poems)

Reviewed by Kate Chisholm (1994)

Medbh McGuckian
(Venus and the Rain)

Reviewed by Steven Blyth (1995)

Medbh McGuckian
(On Ballycastle Beach)

Reviewed by Ian Sansom (1995)

Medbh McGuckian
(The Face of the Earth)

Reviewed by Kate Keogan (2003)

Medbh McGuckian
(The Book of the Angel)

Reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2005)

Medbh McGuckian
(Marine Cloud Brightening)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2020)

Patrick McGuinness
( Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle: French and European Perspectives edited by Patrick McGuinness)

Reviewed by Charles Mundye (2001)

Patrick McGuinness
(The Canals of Mars)

Reviewed by Andrew McNeillie (2005)

Eric McHenry
(Potscrubber Lullabies)

Reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2008)

Ruth McIlroy
(Guppy Primer)

Reviewed by Jane Draycott (2018)

Jamie McKendrick
(The Sirocco Room)

Jamie McKendrick
(The Marble Fly)

Reviewed by Tim Kendall (1997)

Jamie McKendrick
(Sky Nails)

Reviewed by Jem Poster (2000)

Jamie McKendrick
(Crocodiles and Obelisks)

Reviewed by Alex Wylie (2008)

Jamie McKendrick
(Out There)

Reviewed by Andrew Latimer (2013)

Jamie McKendrick
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by David Spittle (2016)

Jamie McKendrick
(Anomaly)

Reviewed by Robert Selby (2019)

Jamie McKendrick
(The Years)

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2021)

Jamie McKendrick
(The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and Translation)

Reviewed by Chris Miller (2022)

Earl McKenzie
(Against Linearity)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)

Bill McKibben
(The End of Nature)

Reviewed by Paul Mills (1991)

Jess McKinney
(Weeding)

Reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2022)

Maureen N. McLane
(My Poetics)

Reviewed by Hugh Foley (2024)

Kate McLoughlin
(Plums)

Reviewed by Sandeep Parmar (2012)

Nigel McLoughlin
(At the Water's Clearing)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2002)

Nigel McLoughlin
(At the Waters' Clearing)

Reviewed by Alex Davis (2002)

Paul McMahon
(Bourdon)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)

Andrew McMillan
(physical)

Reviewed by Gregory Woods (2016)

Dorothy McMillan
(Modern Scottish Women Poets, edited and introduced by Dorothy McMillan and Michael Byrne)

Reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2004)

Hugh McMillan
(Aphrodite's Anorak)

Reviewed by Rennie Parker (1997)

Ian McMillan
(Yes But What Is This? What Exactly?)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)

Helen McNeil
(Emily Dickinson)

Reviewed by Joseph Allard (1987)

Christine McNeill
(First and Last Music)

Reviewed by Josh Hinton (2015)

Andrew McNeillie
(Nevermore)

Reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (2001)

Andrew McNeillie
(In Mortal Memory)

Reviewed by Natalie Pollard (2010)

Angela McSeveney
(Imprint)

Reviewed by David Kinloch (2006)

Diana McVeagh
(Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (2007)

Allison McVety
(Miming Happiness )

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)

Matthew Mead
(The Midday Muse)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1980)

Matthew Mead
(Walking Out of the World)

Reviewed by Sarah Wardle (2005)

Philip Mead
(This River is in the South)

Stephen Medcalf
(The Spirit of England: Selected Essays edited by Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2010)

Paula Meehan
(Mysteries of the Home)

Reviewed by James Sale (1997)

Paula Meehan
(Music for Dogs)

Reviewed by John McAuliffe (2010)

Sam Meekings
(The Other Shore)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)

Ernst Meister
(Between Nothing and Nothing, translated by Jean Boase-Beier, with an introduction by John Hartley Williams)

Reviewed by David Constantine (2004)

James Melville
(The Imperial Way)

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1986)

Nicky Melville
(Decade of Cuts)

Reviewed by Greg Thomas (2022)

Louis Menand
(The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2021)

Samuel Menashe
(New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks)

Reviewed by Belle Randall (2006)

Edward Mendelson
(Early Auden)

Reviewed by Peter Levi (1982)

Rod Mengham
(Chance of a Storm)

Reviewed by Peter Hughes (2016)

Hilary Menos
(Berg)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2011)

Hilary Menos
(Red Devon)

Reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2016)

Hilary Menos
(Human Tissue)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)

Lucy Mercer
(Emblem)

Reviewed by Kate Simpson (2023)

Moelwyn Merchant
(Fire From the Heights)

Reviewed by Michael Freeman (1990)

Christopher Meredith
(Please and Still)

Reviewed by Sam Adams (2021)

George Meredith
(Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, edited by Rebecca N. Mitchell and Criscillia Benford)

Reviewed by Max Wallis (2014)

William Meredith
(Effort at Speech)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)

Daphne Merkin
(Enchantment )

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)

James Merrill
(Late Settings)

Reviewed by John Ash (1986)

James Merrill
(A Scattering of Salts and Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker)

Reviewed by Justin Quinn (1995)

W.S. Merwin
(East Window: The Asian Translations and The River Sound)

Reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)

W.S. Merwin
(The Shadow of Sirius)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2009) Reviewed by David C. Ward (2011)

W.S. Merwin
(Ripeness)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2017)

Douglas Messerli
(My Year 2005: Terrifying Times)

Reviewed by David Kinloch (2008)

Douglas Messerli
(My Year 2004: Under Our Skin: Readings, Events, Memories)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2010)

Bruce Meyer
(The Open Room)

Jeffrey Meyers
(The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis)

Reviewed by Alan Munton (1981)

Anne Michaels
(Miner's Pond)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1992)

Anne Michaels
(Poems)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2000)

Calliope Michail
(Along Mosaic Roads)

Reviewed by Anthony Barnett (2019)

Henri Michaux
(Spaced, Displaced, translated by David and Helen Constantine)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1993)

Henri Michaux
(Storms Under the Skin: Selected poems, 1927â1954)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2018)

Mary di Michele
(Luminous Emergencies)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1992)

Diane Wood Middlebrook
(Anne Sexton)

Reviewed by Patricia Beer (1992)

Christopher Middleton
(Carminalenia)

Reviewed by Alan Young (1981)

Christopher Middleton
(The Balcony Tree)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)

Christopher Middleton
(Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Selected Translations)

Reviewed by Peter Cole (2000)

Christopher Middleton
(Twenty Tropes for Doctor Dark)

Reviewed by Jem Poster (2001)

Christopher Middleton
(Of the Mortal Fire: Poems 1999-2002)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2004)

Christopher Middleton
(Palavers and A Nocturnal Journal)

Reviewed by Oliver Dennis, Peter Riley, and Philip Terry (2005)

Christopher Middleton
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Peter McCarey (2009)

Christopher Middleton
(Depictions of Blaff)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2010)

David Middleton
(As Far as Light Remains)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)

David Mikics
(The Art of the Sonnet )

Reviewed by Philip Terry (2010)

Jonathan Miles
(Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-ffin)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)

Jonathan Miles
(David Jones - The Maker Unmade)

Reviewed by Sam Adams (1996)

Josephine Miles
(Collected Poems: 1930-83)

Reviewed by Brian Morton (1986)

Jennifer Militello
(Body Thesaurus)

Reviewed by Tim Liardet (2014)

Gordon Millan
(A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé)

Reviewed by Christopher Middleton (1995)

Margaret Millar
(Spider Webs)

Reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)

Cynthia Miller
(Honorifics)

Reviewed by Annie Fan (2022)

Henry Miller
(Sextet: Six Essays)

Reviewed by David J. Levy (1981)

J. Hillis Miller
(Theory Now and Then)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)

J. Hillis Miller
(Black Holes)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2000)

Karl Miller
(Doubles )

Reviewed by Richard Brown (1986)

Kei Miller
(Things I have Withheld)

Reviewed by Douglas Field (2021)

John Millett
(Come down Cunderang)

Michael Millgate
(Thomas Hardy: a Biography)

Reviewed by David Wright (1983)

Paul Mills
(North Carriageway)

Reviewed by David Day (1977)

Paul Mills
(Half Moon Bay)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)

Paul Mills
(Dinosaur Point)

Reviewed by Paul Mundon (2001)

Paul Mills
(Out of Deep Time)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)

Drew Milne
(How Peace Came and Sheet Mettle)

Reviewed by James Keery (1996)

Drew Milne
(As It Were)

Reviewed by James Keery (1999)

Drew Milne
(Mars Disarmed)

Reviewed by Kate Price (2003)

Czeslaw Milosz
(The Land of Ulro)

Reviewed by Michael Glover (1986)

Czeslaw Milosz
(Provinces: Poems 1987-1991, translated by the author and Robert Hass)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)

Czeslaw Milosz
(Facing The River)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1996)

Joseph Minden
(Poppy)

Reviewed by Horatio Morpurgo (2023)

Robert Minhinnick
(Life Sentences)

Reviewed by Richard Poole (1984)

Robert Minhinnick
(The Dinosaur Park)

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1987)

Robert Minhinnick
(After the Hurricane)

Reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (2003)

Robert Minhinnick
(The Adulterer's Tongue: Six Welsh Poets: A Facing-Text Anthology)

Reviewed by Meic Stephens (2004)

Robert Minhinnick
(In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch-Language Poets, edited by Rob Schouten and Robert Minhinnick)

Reviewed by Chris McCully (2004)

Sudesh Mishra
(Tandava)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1993)

Gabriela Mistral
(Selected Prose and Prose-Poems. Translated by Stephen Tapscott)

Reviewed by James O'Connor (2003)

Gabriela Mistral
(The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral)

Reviewed by Trevor Barnett (2009)

Adrian Mitchell
(For Beauty Douglas: Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Dennis Keene (1983)

Adrian Mitchell
(On the Beach At Cambridge)

Reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)

Adrian Mitchell
(Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits)

Reviewed by James Keery (1993)

Elma Mitchell
(The Human Cage)

Reviewed by Fraser Steel (1981)

Elma Mitchell
(Furnished Rooms)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)

Elma Mitchell
(People Etcetera)

Reviewed by Edwina Burness (1989)

Naomi Mitchison
(Beyond this Limit)

Reviewed by Eavan Boland (1987)

Martin Mittelmeier
(Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2025)

Ange Mlinko
(Venice)

Reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2022)

Judith Moffett
(James Merrill, An Introduction to the Poetry)

Reviewed by Dennis Keene (1985)

A.G. Mojtabai
(Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas)

Reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)

John Mole
(Our Ship)

Reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1978)

John Mole
(In and Out of the Apple)

Reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1985)

John Mole
(Homing)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)

John Mole
(Depending on the Light)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)

John Mole
(Counting the Chimes: New & Selected Poems 1975-2003)

Reviewed by Peter Scupham (2005)

Charles Molesworth
(The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)

Audrey Molloy
(Satyress)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)

Dorothy Molloy
(Hare Soup)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)

Dorothy Molloy
(Gethsemane Day)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)

Dorothy Molloy
(The Poems of Dorothy Molloy)

Reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2020)

Geraldine Monk
(Noctivagations)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2002)

Geraldine Monk
(Alan Halsey, John Byrum, Geraldine Monk, Ahadada Reader 1)

Reviewed by Philip Terry (2005)

John Montague
(A Slow Dance)

Reviewed by Stan Smith (1978)

John Montague
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Michael Bird (1983)

John Montague
(The Dead Kingdom)

Reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)

John Montague
(Mount Eagle)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1990)

John Montague
(New Selected Poems, edited by Peter Fallon and Dillon Johnston and The Rough Field)

John Montague
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Ra Page (1996)

John Montague
(Company: A Chosen Life and Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Alex Davis (2001)

John Montague
(Drunken Sailor)

Reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2005)

John Montague
(Selected Poems, 1961â2017, Ed. Peter Fallon)

Reviewed by Brian Morton (2020)

Mary Montague
(Tribe)

Reviewed by John McAuliffe (2010)

Eugenio Montale
(New Poems, translated by G. Singh, with an essay by F. R. Leavis)

Reviewed by Michael Vince (1978)

Eugenio Montale
(The Bones of the Cuttlefish, translated by Antonino Mazza with an introduction by Wladimir Krysinski)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1987)

Eugenio Montale
(The Coastguard's House, English versions by Jeremy Reed)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1991)

Jan Montefiore
(Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing)

Reviewed by Avril Horner (1989)

Janet Montefiore
(Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000)

Reviewed by Julie Mullaney (2002)

George Monteiro
(The Presence of Camões: Influences on the literature of England, America and Southern Africa)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1997)

Nick Montfort
(edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort)

Reviewed by Edward Picot (2003)

A. David Moody
(Ezra Pound: Poet - Portrait of the Man & his Work. Volume III: The Tragic Years)

Reviewed by Matthew Creasy (2016)

David Moody
(Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume II, The Epic Years 1921-1939)

Reviewed by Andrew Latimer (2015)

George Moor
(Arianrhod's Dance)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)

Kim Moore
(All the Men I Never Married and What the Trumpet Taught Me)

Reviewed by Rebecca Goss (2023)

Marianne Moore
(Letters)

Reviewed by David Yezzi (1998)

Nicholas Moore
(Lacrimae Rerum, edited by Peter Riley ; Longings of the Acrobats (Selected Poems), edited by Peter Riley; Numbers #3, edited by John Alexander, Alison Rimmer, Peter Robinson and Clive Wilmer; and Spleen, edited by Anthony Rudolf )

Reviewed by James Keery (1991)

Nicholas Moore
(Selected Poems Ed. John Lucas & Matthew Welton)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2015)

Prentiss Moore

Reviewed by John Ash (1982)

Elsa Morante
(Alibi and Narcissus)

Reviewed by Gandolfo Cascio (2024)

Edwin Morgan
(Star Gate)

Reviewed by Michael Cayley (1980)

Edwin Morgan
(Poems of Thirty Years)

Reviewed by Alan Young (1984)

Edwin Morgan
(Grafts/Takes)

Reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1984)

Edwin Morgan
(Themes on a Variation)

Reviewed by Alan Young (1989)

Edwin Morgan
(About Edwin Morgan, edited by Robert Crawford and Hamish Whyte and Nothing Not Giving Messages, edited by Hamish Whyte)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1990)

Edwin Morgan
(Virtual and Other Realities)

Reviewed by Michael Duggan (1998)

Edwin Morgan
(Tales From Baron Munchausen)

Reviewed by Stephen Procter (2005)

Esther Morgan
(Beyond Calling Distance)

Reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2002)

Esther Morgan
(The Wound Register)

Reviewed by Sue Leigh (2018)

Frederick Morgan
(Poems of the Two Worlds)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1979)

Frederick Morgan
(Poems of Two Worlds)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1982)

J.O. Morgan
(At Maldon)

Reviewed by Joey Connolly (2014)

Pete Morgan
(A Winter Visitor)

Reviewed by Ian McMillan (1985)

Robert Morgan
(Green River)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)

David Morley
(Mandelstam Variations)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)

David Morley
(Clearing A Name)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2000)

David Morley
(The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)

David Morley
(Fury)

Reviewed by Declan Ryan (2021)

David Morphet
(The Silence of Green)

Reviewed by Daniel Weissbort (2010)

Ian Morris
(The Little Magazine in Contemporary America eds. Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz)

Reviewed by Valerie Duff (2015)

Marianne Morris
(The On All Said Things Moratorium)

Reviewed by Henry King (2015)

Jake Morris-Campbell
(Corrigenda for Costafine Town)

Reviewed by Ian Seed (2022)

Morrisey
(Autobiography)

Reviewed by Adrian May (2014)

Blake Morrison
(The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s)

Reviewed by John Haffenden (1980)

Blake Morrison
(Seamus Heaney)

Reviewed by Neil Corcoran (1983)

Blake Morrison

Reviewed by C.B. McCully (1985)

Blake Morrison
(Shingle Street)

Reviewed by Ned Denny (2015)

Vincent Morrison
(The Season of Comfort)

Reviewed by Matt Simpson (1980)

Michael Morrissey
(Taking in the View, illustrated by Gregory O'Brien)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1988)

Sinéad Morrissey
(The State of the Prisons)

Reviewed by Sasha Dugdale (2005)

Sinéad Morrissey
(On Balance)

Reviewed by Adam Heardman (2018)

Graham Mort
(Snow From The North)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)

Graham Mort
(A Night on the Lash)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)

Helen Mort
(Same but Different)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2022)

Valzhyna Mort
(Collected Body)

Reviewed by Sandeep Parmar (2012)

Valzhyna Mort
(Music for the Dead and Resurrected)

Reviewed by Rebecca Hurst (2022)

Manuela Moser
(Last night, the mountain)

Reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2022)

Ivo Mosley
(Dumbing Down: Culture, politics and the mass media, edited by Ivo Mosley)

Reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2000)

Stanley Moss
(Skull of Adam)

Reviewed by Sarah Matthews (1981)

Stanley Moss
(Asleep in the Garden: New and Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Sebastian Barker (1999)

Stanley Moss
(Songs of Imperfection)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)

Stanley Moss
(No Tear is Commonplace)

Reviewed by Sam Adams (2014)

Tristan Moss
(The Cold War)

Reviewed by Ian Seed (2022)

Andrew Motion
(The Pleasure Steamers)

Reviewed by Edward Levy (1979)

Andrew Motion
(Philip Larkin: Contemporary Writers)

Reviewed by Michael Vince (1983)

Andrew Motion
(Love in a Life)

Andrew Motion
(The Price of Everything)

Reviewed by Ian Sansom (1994)

Andrew Motion
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Conor O'Callaghan (1999)

Andrew Motion
(The Customs House)

Reviewed by Roger Garfitt (2014)

Andrew Motion
(Coming in to Land: Selected Poems 1975â2015)

Reviewed by Kevin J. Gardner (2017)

Andrew Motion
(The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning, and Consolation)

Reviewed by Jack Barron (2024)

Michael Mott
(Absence of Unicorns, Presence of Lions)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1979)

Michael Mott
(Counting the Grasses)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)

John Muckle
(Active in Airtime #1, 2, 3, 4)

Reviewed by James Keery (1996)

John Muckle
(My Pale Tulip)

Reviewed by Ian Brinton (2012)

Harvey Mudd
(The Plain of Smokes)

Reviewed by Michael Hofmann (1983)

Edwin Muir

Reviewed by Alan Young (1988)

Paul Muldoon
(Quoof)

Reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1985)

Paul Muldoon
(Meeting the British and Selected Poems 1968-1983)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)

Paul Muldoon
(Meeting the British)

Reviewed by Avril Horner (1989)

Paul Muldoon
(Shining Brow)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)

Paul Muldoon

Reviewed by Vona Groarke (1997)

Paul Muldoon
(Moy Sand and Gravel)

Reviewed by Michael Kinsella (2003)

Paul Muldoon
(Horse Latitudes and The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry)

Reviewed by Michael Schmidt (2007)

Paul Muldoon
(Maggot)

Reviewed by Alex Wylie (2011)

Paul Muldoon
(The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics)

Reviewed by Adam Crothers (2013)

Paul Muldoon
(Howdie-Skelp)

Reviewed by Hugh Foley (2022)

Wendy Mulford
(The Bay of Naples)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)

Wendy Mulford

Reviewed by Kate Price (2003)

Stephen Mulhall
(On Being in the World)

Reviewed by Michael Grant (1992)

Harry Mulisch
(The Assault, translated from the Dutch by Claire Nicolas White)

Val Mulkerns
(Very Like A Whale: A Novel of Dublin Life)

Reviewed by Francis Doherty (1988)

Alice Munro
(The Progress of Love )

Reviewed by Shirley Chew (1989)

Michael Murphy
(Elsewhere)

Reviewed by Kate Keogan (2004)

Michael Murphy
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Hilary Menos (2012)

Richard Murphy
( Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Neil Corcoran (1980)

Richard Murphy
(The Mirror Wall)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1990)

G.E. Murray
(Repairs)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)

G.E. Murray
(Walking the Blind Dog)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)

Les Murray
(Dog Fox Field)