Carcanet in 2004; and a fourth, The House of Clay, appeared from Carcanet in 2007. Selected publications Literary studies Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (1991, Oxford UP, ) Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1998, Clarendon, ) Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002, Clarendon, ) Poetry (with Johnston Kirkpatrick and Trevor McMahon) Trio Poetry 3, (1982, Blackstaff Press, ) Biting the Wax (1989, Bloodaxe, ) Adam's Dream (1996, Bloodaxe, ) Pastorals (2004, Carcanet, ) As editor (with Alan Heuser) Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice (1993, Clarendon, ) (with Tim Kendall) Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (2003, Liverpool UP, ) Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems (2007, Faber, ) References External links 1962 births Living people British academics of English literature Male poets from Northern Ireland Writers from Belfast Alumni of University College, Oxford People educated at Methodist College Belfast Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford Male writers from Northern Ireland