David Mason poet

Anthony Hecht: The Life and Work of a Poet’s Poet The Wall Street Journal, 3 November 2023

Performing Is Learning: A Teacher’s Memoir Los Angeles Review of Books, 30 May 2022

War and Imagination The Hudson Review, January 2022

Beloved Immoralist: One Man’s Love of a Fictional Character – David Mason ponders his father’s attachment to Gulley Jimson, the protagonist of Joyce Cary’s ‘The Horse’s Mouth’, Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 December 2021

Homage to Tom Stoppard The Hudson Review, May 2021

Les Murray, Dissident Poet First Things, 30 April 2019

Notes on Identity and Literature The Woven Tale Press, 24 January 2019

So No More He’ll Go A-Roving – Patrick Leigh Fermor was a maker of paradisiacal sentences that leave the reader hungry for life, The Wall Street Journal, 18 June 2011

Lord Byron – Seven Takes The Hudson Review, February 2024

The Example of Seamus Heaney The Hudson Review, November 2023

Kafka Agonistes The Hudson Review, July 2023

Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age The Hudson Review, July 2023

The Eros of Shirley Hazzard The Hudson Review, April 2023

‘Strange Bewildering Time’ Review: Tripping From Turkey to Tibet The Wall Street Journal, 23 March 2023

‘The Greek Revolution’ Review: Hellenism and Heroism A cause célèbre in its day, the Greek fight for independence inspired revolutionaries across Europe, The Wall Street Journal, 10 December 2021

‘Stories’ and ‘True Stories’ Review: Life, Pinned to the Page Fiction and reporting by an Australian writer with a cinematic prose style and an unflinching eye, The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2018