Articles and Essays

• ‘Against Excess’ in PN Review 48 (Vol.12 No.4, 1986) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5701 – subscription required)
• ‘Pity England!’ in Hard Times ( Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift No.80: ‘Contemporary (British) Poetry’, edited by John Hartley Williams, Berlin, 2006)
• ‘A Wave from a Boat? The Poetry of Greg Delanty’ in Agenda: ‘Atlantic Crossings: 50th Birthday Celebration for Greg Delanty’ (Vol.43 No.4 & Vol.44 No.1, Summer Autumn, 2008)
• ‘Romantic Agoraphobia: the Poetry of Brian Jones’ in PN Review 201 (Vol.38 No.1, 2011) http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=8367 – subscription required)
• Introductory Essay in Paul McLoughlin (editor), Brian Jones: New & Selected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2013)
• ‘The Courtenay Play’ in Tony Roberts (editor), Poetry in the Blood (Shoestring Press, 2014)
• ‘Joining the Curves’ (May, 2014) is an unpublished review-essay on the poetry of John Hartley Williams It is a reworking, following the poet’s death, of an earlier piece entitled ‘In the Shadows’ (May, 2010). Both were written with the LRB in mind (they were gracious and not a little mysterious on both occasions in deciding in the end to take not to take them) The pieces are available on request.
• ‘Inside and Out – the force of nature in poems by Ted Hughes (‘Wind’); Seamus Heaney (‘Storm on the Island’); Ian Hamilton (‘The Storm’) & Brian Jones (‘The Measure of the Need’)’ in the Kings College London website, Wild Court, at http://wildcourt.co.uk/features/paul-mcloughlin-on-hughesheaneyhamiltonjones/ (19th October, 2015)
• ‘The Unclubbable Jones’ in The North 55 (January, 2016)
• ‘Scholarship Boys: Some Thoughts on the Poetry of Douglas Dunn & Brian Jones’ in The Dark Horse (forthcoming Spring 2018)

Interviews

• ‘In Conversation with Brian Jones’ in PN Review 137 (Vol.27 No.3, 2001) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=765;hilite=Paul%20McLoughlin  – subscription required)
• ‘An Interview with Greg Delanty’ in Poetry Ireland Review 90 (2007) (See a version of this interview at http://gregdelanty.com/?page_id=151)

Obituary Notices

• Brian Jones: ‘Poet attracted to the themes of separation, distance and history’ in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/23/brian-jones-obituary)
• John Hartley Williams: ‘Prolific poet acclaimed for his alliance of flamboyant inventiveness and wit with technicalm virtuosity’ in The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-hartley-williams-prolific-poet-acclaimed-for-his-alliance-of-flamboyant-inventiveness-and-wit-9535840.html)

Reviews

• ‘Driving through Raine’ [on Martin Booth & Anthony Thwaite] in PN Review 49 (Vol.12 No.5, 1986) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5629;hilite=Paul%20McLoughlin – subscription required)
• ‘Paradigms, Fables and Notes’ [on John Latham, Bill Turner, Patricia McCarthy & Marge Piercy] in PN Review 52 (Vol.13 No.2. 1986) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5508;hilite=Paul%20McLoughlin – subscription required)
• ‘Something Crassly Normal’ [on Brian Jones & Jon Glover] in PN Review 55 (Vol.13 No.5, 1987) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5335;hilite=Paul%20McLoughlin – subscription required)
• [on Herbert Lomas] in Tears in the Fence 20 (Spring, 1998)
• ‘In the Key of C’ [on Tamar Yoseloff, Michael Lasky & Bernard O’Donoghue] in Tears in the Fence 24 (Autumn, 1999)
• ‘Translating from Nothing’ [on John Hartley Williams’s Blues] in Critical Survey (Vol.17 No.2, June, 2005)
• ‘Looking Again’ [on Peter Carpenter, Linda France & Jennifer Copley] in Critical Survey (Vol.22 No.1, March, 2010)
• ‘Beyond C Major’ [on Maurice Rutherford] in PN Review 213 (Vo,40 No.1, 2013) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=8887;hilite=Maurice%20Rutherford – subscription required)
• [on Mike Bartholomew-Biggs] in London Grip (November, 2013) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2013/11/poetry-review-winter-2013-bartholomew-biggs/)
• ‘When Sundials Worked’ [on Beatrice Garland] in PN Review 219 (Vol.41 No,1, 2014) (http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=9177;hilite=Beatrice%20Garland – subscription required)
• [on Adrian Caesar] in London Grip (November, 2014) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2014/11/london-grip-poetry-review-caesar/)
• [on Richard Kell – a review in verse] in London Grip (May, 2015) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2015/05/london-grip-poetry-review-kell/)
• [on Allan E. Baker] in London Grip (April, 2016) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2016/04/london-grip-poetry-review-baker/)
• ‘Tenuous Moorings: Reflections on Sarah Howe’ in London Grip (April, 2016) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2016/04/tenuous-moorings-reflections-on-howe/)
• [on John Forth] in London Grip (May, 2016) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2016/05/london-grip-poetry-review-forth-2/)
• [on Matthew Francis] in London Grip (October, 2017) (https://londongrip.co.uk/2017/10/london-grip-poetry-review-francis/)