Articles and interviews


The TS Eliot Prize 2022 Shortlist

October 2022
Watch videos and readings of Wilder as part of being on the shortlist for the TS Eliot Prize 2022

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Southbank Centre – See Who’s On The Shortlist For The TS Eliot Prize

October 2022
Details about each poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2022, including a profile of myself.

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Liverpool University Press Interview

March 2022
Each year Liverpool University Pavilion Poetry students assist with the publishing of LUP new collections, dedicating their time to an individual poet. In this interview, I talk with Joseph Jackson about Wilder – you can also listen to my responses.

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Wombwell Rainbow Interview

November 2018
My interview with Wombwell Rainbow about my motivation, daily routines and work ethic for the publication of The Illuminated World.

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Ginkgo Prize Winner Essay

2017
My essay ‘The Poet & The Planet.’

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Room with a view

Poetry News, Autumn 2011
An article on my Banff residency. 

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Collaging: first drafts and the challenge of clarity

Magma 41, 2008.
An essay on collaging, written as part of the Poetry in Practice series.

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful

My introduction to my poems in the Oxford Poets’ Anthology 2007.

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