• with Johnston Kirkpatrick & Trevor McMahon, Trio Poetry, 3 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1982), 59pp..
• Biting the Wax (Newcastle: Bloodaxe 1989, 1990), . 64pp.
• Adam’s Dream (Newcastle: Bloodaxe 1996).
• The House of Clay (Manchester: Carcanet 2006), 71pp.
• Hermes the Hunter (2016)

• Gerald Dawe, ed., The New Younger Irish Poets (Belfast: Blackstaff 1982; rev. edn. 1991);
• Patrick Crotty ed., Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (1995) [“Sunday in Great Tew” [416]; “Peacetime” [419].
  Justin Quinn, ed., Irish Poetry After Feminism [Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco Lectures, 10] (Colin Smythe, 2008).

• Louis MacNeice, the Poet in His Contexts (OUP 1991).
• Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (OUP 1997), 240pp.
• Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (OUP 2002), 225pp. [[incls. ‘Yeats’s Poetic Structures’].
  Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2013).

• ‘Seamus Heaney as Critic’, in Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature ed., Michael Kenneally [Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature 2] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995), pp.174-89.
• ‘The Poet and the Finished Man: Heaney’s Oxford Lectures’, in The Irish Review, 19 (Spring/Summer 1996) [q.pp.].
• ‘History and Poetry: Derek Mahon and Tom Paulin’, in Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Elmer Andrews (Macmillan 1996), pp.86-106.
• ‘Yeats and Remorse’ [Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, 31 Oct. 1996], in Proceedings of the British Academy, 94 (British Academy 1997), pp.173-206 [available as pdf - online; accessed 27.12.2024].
• ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: Arnold and Irish Culture’, in The Irish Review, 23 (Winter 1998), pp.94-104.
• ‘A Poem for All Seasons: Yeats, Meaning, and the Publishing History of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” in the 1890sö, in The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 29 [The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles (MHRA 1999), pp.202-30.
• ‘Louis MacNeice: Irony and Responsibility’ in The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry, ed. Matthew Campbell (Cambridge UP 2003), pp.59-75.

• ed., with Alan Heuser, Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser and Peter McDonald (OUP 1994).
• ed., Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber 2006; rep. 2013), 836pp.

Poems of W. B. Yeats - Routledge Edition:

Ed., W. B. Yeats - Poems. Vol. I: 1882-1889 (London: Routledge - 2020); Vol II: 1890-1898 (London: Routledge 2021); Vol. III: 1899-1910 (London: Routledge 2023), 474pp.

—details available at Taylor Francis - online; accessed 16.11.2023]

• review of Early Poetry; Wild Swans; Michael Robartes; Winding Stair [Cornell UP ‘Manuscript Materials’], in Irish Literary Supplement, 27 Sept. 1996.
• review of Keith Alldritt, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu, and Stephen Coote, W. B. Yeats: A Life, in Times Literary Supplement (9 Sept. 1997), p.26.
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• review of Letters of Louis MacNeice, ed. Jonathan Allison.

See also See his rsponse to Denis Donoghue's review of Alan Heuser, ed., Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice, in London Review of Books (23 April 1987)

A little squeal, and then the sound
of a spring being tightly wound
in on itself, is all there is
at first, a sudden note and whizz-
whir coming from the bunched-up grass,
but maybe as the minutes pass
and you lie still, you start to see
a round bird moving clumsily,
all body, getting ready now
to risk the air, and chance a low
flight that will take it further out
from the covey: as if in doubt,
and happier with the ground below,
it hesitates; it doesn’t go.