Parker, Michael Richard (2016) Back in the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, its Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics'. Textual Practice . pp. 1-35. ISSN 0950-236X
Parker, Michael Richard (2013) “Back in the heartland”: Seamus Heaney's “Route 110” sequence in Human Chain. Irish Studies Review, 21 (4). pp. 374-386.
Parker, Michael Richard (2013) “Past Master”: Czeslaw Milosz and his Impact on Seamus Heaney's Poetry. Textual Practice, 5 (1). pp. 825-850. ISSN 0950-236X
Parker, Michael Richard (2013) The Power of Withholding: Politics, Gender, and Narrative Technique in William Trevor's Felicia's Journey. New Hibernia Review, 17 (1). pp. 98-114.
Parker, Michael Richard (2012) ‘Air from Another Time and Place’: The Island’s Arts’ (an essay on the visual arts and literature in Ireland). Nordic Irish Studies, 1 (11). pp. 7-25. ISSN ISBN 978 87 91259 13 4.
Parker, Michael Richard (2012) ‘His Nibs’: Self-Reflexivity and the Significance of Translation in Seamus Heaney's 'Human Chain'. Irish University Review, 42 (2). pp. 327-350. ISSN 0021-1427
Parker, Michael Richard (2009) Neither home nor away: place and displacement in Bernard O'Donoghue's poetry. Irish Studies Review, 17 (4). pp. 513-518. ISSN 0967-0882
Parker, Michael (2008) Fallout from the Thunder: Poetry and Politics in Seamus Heaney’s "District and Circle". Irish Studies Review, 16 (4). pp. 369-384. ISSN 0967-0882
Parker, Michael Richard (2003) Northern Odyssey: John Montague's "The Cry" (1964) in Its Political Contexts. New Hibernia Review, 7 (1). pp. 87-109. ISSN 1092 3977
Parker, Michael Richard (2002) Changing Skies: the Roles of Native and AmericanNarratives in the Politicisation of Seamus Heaney’s Early Poetry. Symbiosis, 6 (2). pp. 133-158.
Parker, Michael Richard (2002) A CLASS APART: SAM THOMPSON'S "OVER THE BRIDGE", ITS CONTEXTS AND RECEPTION. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), 8 (1). pp. 227-243.
Parker, Michael Richard (2000) Shadows on a Glass: Self-Reflexivity in the Fiction of Deirdre Madden. Irish University Review, 30 (1). pp. 82-102.
Parker, Michael Richard (2019) Speaking truth to power: Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes and the Poetry of Redress. In: Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford. ISBN 9780198805656
Parker, Michael Richard, Vendler, H., Kennedy-Andrews, E., Regan, S., Russell, R.R., Sullivan, M., Corcoran, N., Auge, A., Tyler, M. et al (2016) 'Renewed, Transfigured, In Another Pattern': Seamus Heaney's Multiple Translations. In: "The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances" - The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-10020-9
Parker, Michael Richard (2008) Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”. In: A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Blackwell, pp. 409-416. ISBN 978 1 4051 4537 4
Parker, Michael Richard (2008) Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay. In: A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Blackwell, Berlin, pp. 308-329. ISBN 978-1-61451-149-6
Parker, Michael Richard and Delaney, Paul (2013) William Trevor: Revaluations. Manchester University Press (MUP), Manchester. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-0719087905
Parker, Michael Richard and Brewster, Scott (2009) Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices. Manchester University Press (MUP), Manchester. ISBN 978-0719085604
Parker, Michael Richard and Harte, Liam (2000) Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0312231644