Words & Music
The text of In Memoriam Milena (editions de l'Envol, France; 1995) has been set to music for soprano and string quartet by Jacques Michon. It was performed for the first time in Toulouse in 2001, and subsequently in Paris in 2004 at the Centre Tchèque.
Parts of 'Loveless Losing Paradise' (The Loveless Letters; Chatto & Windus, 1981) were incorporated in the text of Still Mine, a composition by John Casken. The work also included excerpts from poems by Jon Silkin and Gael Turnbull, all with a focus on the industrial history and landscapes of the north of England.
Pamphlet/Chapbook
At The Stone Junction (Northern House; Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978)
Anthologies: a selection
The Bridport Prize (eds. Tracy Chevalier & Don Paterson; Sansom, 2007) The Arvon International Poetry Competition (Arvon Foundation, 2006) Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems (eds. Kevin Crossley-Holland & Lawrence Sail; Enitharmon, 2005) Suffolk: A Celebration (ed. Hardiman Scott; Suffolk Poetry Society, 2001)
Salt v 12 (ed. John Kinsella; Salt, Perth/UK, Australia/UK, 2000) Beyond Lament (ed. Marguerite Striar; Northwestern UP, USA, 1998) Comparative Criticism: Literary Devolution vol. 19 (ed. E.S. Schaffer; Cambridge UP, 1997)
Making Love to Marilyn (ed. Susan Roberts; Viking Penguin, 1997) An Idea of Bosnia (ed. David Grubb; Autumn House/Feed the Children, 1995)
Cuirt Journal 2 (ed. Trish Fitzpatrick; Galway, Ireland, 1995) Twentieth Century British Poetry (ed. Jon Silkin; Tsukuba UP, Japan, 1993)
Chasing the Sun (ed. Sally Bacon; Simon & Schuster, 1992) Poetry Book Society Anthology 2 (ed. Anne Stevenson; Hutchinson, 1991) Faber Book of Blue Verse (ed. John Whitworth; Faber, 1990) First and Always (ed. Lawrence Sail; Faber, 1988) Poetry from North-East England (ed. Catherine Sheveloy; Raduga Press, Moscow, 1988)
Invited Guests (ed. John Gohorry; Grand Piano Editions, 1986) Speak to the Hills (eds. Hamish Brown & Martin Berry, Aberdeen UP, 1985) Mandeville's Bestiary (ed. Peter Scupham; Mandeville Press, 1985) Touched by Fire (ed. Jack Hydes; Cambridge UP, 1985) Poems from Cumbria (ed. Melvyn Bragg; Secker & Warburg, 1984) Between Comets: for Norman Nicholson at 70 (ed. William Scammell; Taxus, 1984) The Iron Age: Anthology 1973-83 (ed. Pete Mortimer; Iron Press, 1983) Whales: A Celebration (ed. Greg Gatenby; Little Brown, USA; Hutchinson, 1983) Presences of Nature: Words & Images of the Lake District (ed. Neil Hanson; Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982) Adam's Dream: Poems from Cumbria & Lakeland (co-ed. with William Scammell; Cumbria Literature, 1981) Wall (ed. Noel Connor; LYC Press, 1981) Homage to Mandelstam (eds. Richard Burns & George Gomori; Loss Press, Cambridge, 1981)
New Poetry 1 - 6 (Arts Council/PEN/Hutchinson, 1975-80) Madeira & Toasts: for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday (ed. Jonathan Williams; Jargon Books, USA, 1977) A Tumult for John Berryman (ed. Marguerite Harris; Dryad Press, USA, 1976) Poetry Dimension 4 (ed. Dannie Abse; Robson Books, 1976)
Poetry & Art
'Heron' (poster; woodcut, Thomas Bewick; Mid-Northumberland Arts Group, 1983)
'St Andrew's Cross Spider' (etching, Clarissa Upchurch; in Cloud Station, ed. George Szirtes; Starwheel Press, 1983)
Magazines & Journals (selected)
Ambit Bananas Choice (USA) Cuadernos del Matenmaticos (Spain) Critical Survey Encounter Equivalencias (Spain) European Judaism Guardian Helix (Australia) Honest Ulsterman Iowa Review (USA) Imago (Australia) Independent Iron Jacket (Australia/www) Kenyon Review (USA) Literary Review London Magazine London Review of Books Meanjin (Australia) Modern Poetry in Translation New Statesman Oxford Magazine Pearl (Denmark) Poetry Review Phoenix Planet PN Review Poetry etc (www) Poetry Ireland Review Quarto Rialto Southerly (Australia) Stand Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Times Literary Supplement Victorian Studies Journal (USA) Wallace Stevens Journal (USA)
Articles & Reviews
From the 1960s to the present day Rodney Pybus has been a regular reviewer of, firstly, new fiction, and then new poetry in the literary quarterly Stand. These contributions have included essays on e.g. the Australian novelist Christina Stead (vol 23/4) and the early fiction of Melvyn Bragg (vol 11/3), and recent reviews of collections by, among others, Anthony Hecht, Derek Walcott and David Constantine (vols 6/4 and 7/1, 2006). He wrote on The Orchards of Syon in the Geoffrey Hill special issue (new series vol 3/4 & 4/1 2002).
'Radio Drama: the Australian Experience' In Peter Lewis (ed.) Radio Drama (Longman, 1981).
'Free and Metrical Verse' in Jon Silkin The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-century Poetry (Macmillan/St Martin's, 1997).