‘The Smell of Home: Letter from Hong Kong’, The Poetry Review 106, no. 3 (2016).
‘Duck/Rabbit’: I wrote a guest post about my poem ‘Sirens’ for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog, on metaphor, mental images and other hybrid creatures (2015).
‘On “Relativity”: Writing a Sonnet for Stephen Hawking’, an essay about my poem and the physics that inspired it on the Paris Review Blog (2015).
‘Sarah Howe on Going Home’, the story behind Loop of Jade on the LRB Bookshop Blog (2015).
I wrote a ‘How I did It’ feature for the Poetry School and Forward Prizes, describing the evolution of my poem ‘Crocodile’ (2015).
For The Poetry Review’s ‘Behind the Poem’ feature, I wrote about the inspiration for two of the poems in my book’s Borges-inspired sequence (2014).
I wrote a piece about the Chinese travels that lie behind my collection, Loop of Jade, for the Best American Poetry Blog (2013).
‘On Expectations: Sarah Howe and Monica Youn’, State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, ed. Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong (Out-Spoken, 2023), pp. 19–42; a conversation reprinted as ‘A Mutual Experience’ in The Poetry Review 113, no. 3 (2023).
‘Anarchic Undersongs: Twin Interviews with Sarah Howe and Layli Long Soldier’ by Stephanie Sy-Quia for Reivew 31 (2019).
‘The Sound of Her Voice’: an interview with Lily Blacksell for the Boston Reivew (2016).
‘Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law’: an interview with Clare Tyrell-Morin for the South China Morning Post Magazine (2016).
‘On Changing British Poetry’: an interview with Greg McCartney for The Honest Ulsterman (2016).
Interview with Patricia McCarthy for Agenda: New Generation Poets, 49 (2016).
‘Sarah Howe: Remaking memory’: an interview with Mark Reynolds at Bookanista (2015).
An Interview for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award published at the Workshy Fop (2015).
Forward-Prizes Q&A on my development as a poet and advice for poets just setting out (2015).
‘“Library of Opaque Memory”: Spectral Archives in Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang and Bhanu Kapil’, The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions, ed. Linda Anderson, Mark Byers & Ahren Warner (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) pp. 124-42.
‘Portraits’ in John Donne in Context, ed. Michael Schoenfeldt (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
‘Hauntings of Home’, Review of Xiaolu Guo, Once Upon a Time in the East & Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life, TLS (May 24, 2017).
‘Feet in the Puddle’, Review of Elizabeth S. Dodd and Cassandra Gorman, editors, Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought, TLS (February 2, 2017).
‘“Our Speaking Picture”: William Scott’s Model of Poesy and the Visual Imagination’, Sidney Journal 33, (2016), 29–68.
‘Emblem and Iconography’ in Edmund Spenser in Context, ed. Andrew Escobedo (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
‘The Feel of Thinking’, Essay on the texture of thought in Denise Riley and John Ashbery, Poetry London 82 (2015).
‘Poets Reading: Sarah Howe on Peter Streckfus’, The Poetry Review 105, no. 3 (2015).
‘Exploring Metaphor’, Essay for Young Poets Network (2015).
Reviews of Arundhathi Subramaniam, When God is a Traveller & Pascale Petit, Fauverie, The Poetry Review 105, no. 1 (2015).
Reviews of Lavinia Greenlaw, A Double Sorrow & Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, Poetry London 79 (2014).
Reviews of Tiffany Atkinson, So Many Moving Parts & Zoë Skoulding, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds, Poetry Wales 50 (2014).
‘Painted grapes’, Essay on Ben Lerner, Oxford Poetry 100 Years (2014).
Reviews of Philip Gross, Deep Field & Robert Minhinnick, New Selected Poems, New Welsh Review 97 (2012).
‘Skipping to the Apocalypse’, Essay on three young US women poets [Elyse Fenton, Dora Malech, & Darcie Dennigan], New Welsh Review 96 (2012).
‘Masques, Masquerades, Revels and Routs’ in Somerset House: The History, ed. Meredith Etherington-Smith (Somerset House Trust, 2010).
‘To Imagine the Future’, Review of Sea Change by Jorie Graham, PN Review 185 (Jan/Feb 2009).
‘Silent Parables: Making Pictures Speak in Quarles’s Emblemes’, Emblematica 17 (2009), 299–317
‘Elegy for Gurney’, Review of In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric, London Review of Books 30 no. 23 (4 Dec 2008).
‘The Authority of Presence: The Development of the English Author Portrait, 1500-1640’, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 102 (2008), 465–99.
‘“Pregnant Images of Life”: Visual Art and Representation in the Arcadia and The Faerie Queene’, Cambridge Quarterly 34 (2005), 33–53.
‘“General and Invariable Ideas of Nature”: Joshua Reynolds and his Critical Descendants’, English 54 (2005), 1–13.
In August 2013 I spent a week as guest blogger for the Best American Poetry. My five essays, which charted my literary travels through China, can be read in their archives:
I. That Blue Flower on the Map
II. Du Fu’s Cottage
III. The Library Cave
IV. Possession Point
A selection of pieces on poetry and poetics for Prac Crit, the online journal I co-edited for five years with Dai George and Vidyan Ravinthiran:
Interview with Jorie Graham on her poem, ‘Cryo’
Interview with Andrea Brady on her poem, ‘Song for Florida 2’
Interview with Brenda Shaughnessy on her poem, ‘Artless’
Essay on ‘The Catch’ by James Goodman