Interviews, critical & creative responses
Nina Kins, “This Is Beauty” podcast interview, 2023
Pauline Herbst, “Pandemics Reflected” podcast interview, 2022
David Spittle, Light Glyphs, interviews with John Ashbery, Lisa Samuels & others, Broken Sleep Books 2021
Anthony Manu, “Narrative coherence and postcolonialism in Tomorrowland and Tender Girl by Lisa Samuels,” in Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings 5.2 2020
Paula Green on Anti M, in Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand women’s poetry, Massey University Press 2019
Owen Bullock, “Lisa Samuels and Multiplicity” in Poetry and Process, 2019
Judith Cordeaux, visual art homage to Mama Mortality Corridos, Exhibition, Dunedin 2018
David Spittle, “Surrealism and Contemporary Poetry”: on Andrew Joron, Nathaniel Mackey, Lisa Samuels, Shuddhashar 2 2017
Frédéric Pattar, poetry of Lisa Samuels set to new music: Symphony for Human Transport, for voice and chamber orchestra, premiere Paris 2017; Wenter, chorale, premiere Paris 2015; Peephole metaphysics, for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble, featured on Radio France Musique 2014, performance premiere Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 2015; Drink me, for singing cello, premiere Clermont-Ferrand 2013
Featured poet, Poetry New Zealand 49 2014
Zoë Skoulding, “Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities” in Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space, Palgrave 2013; also in Zoë Skoulding and Ian Davidson, eds., Placing Poetry, Rodopi 2013
Author entry in The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, 2nd edition, editors Jeremy Noel-Tod and Ian Hamilton, Oxford 2013
“Lisa Samuels: ten selections and commentaries, 2008-2013,” Truck 2013
rob mclennan, “12 or 20 questions with Lisa Samuels,” above/ground press 2012
Sarah Law, “In a Hazelnut: Julian of Norwich in Contemporary Women’s Poetry,” Literature and Theology 25.1 2011: on Denise Levertov, Kathleen Jamie, Lisa Samuels, Frances Presley
Mathew Timmons and Stephanie Rioux, LA-Lit interview, 2010
Reviews of my work have appeared in Publishers Weekly (USA); Glass (USA); Cordite (Australia); Harriet (USA); Boog City (USA); Brief (NZ); New Zealand Poetry Shelf (NZ); Text (NZ); Attention Span (USA); HTML Giant (USA); Jacket and Jacket2 (Australia/USA); Landfall and Landfall Review Online (NZ); Reconfigurations (USA); Shadowtrain (UK); Horizon Review (UK); Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria); Ambit (USA); Intercapillary Space (UK); Exaltations and Difficulties (UK); Stride (UK); Boston Review (USA); The Washington Post (USA); The Virginia Quarterly Review (USA); Shark (USA); Small Press Collective (USA), and elsewhere
