Sperling, M. (2014) Visionary philology: Geoffrey Hill and the study of words. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp204. ISBN 9780198701088

Sperling, M. (2013) Books and the market: trade publishers, state subsidies, and small presses. In: Robinson, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-5438 (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199596805

Sperling, M. (2013) Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886). In: Parini, J. and Scott-Kilvert, I. (eds.) British Writers. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, pp. 317-334. ISBN 9781414480275

Pennington, P. and Sperling, M., eds. (2011) Geoffrey Hill and his contexts. Modern poetry, 6. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp258. ISBN 9783034301855

Sperling, M. (2011) Hill and nineteenth-century linguistic thought. In: Pennington, P. and Sperling, M. (eds.) Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts. Modern Poetry (6). Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 107-132. ISBN 9783034301855

Sperling, M. (2011) The trouble of an index. Essays in Criticism, 61 (4). pp. 325-337. ISSN 0014-0856 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgr019

Sperling, M. (2010) Water. In: Robinson, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-5438 (ed.) An Unofficial Roy Fisher. Shearsman Books, Exexter, pp. 161-169. ISBN 9781848611207

Roebuck, T. and Sperling, M. (2010) The glacial question, unsolved: a specimen commentary on lines 1-31. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, 2. pp. 39-78. ISSN 1942-3381

Sperling, M. (2007) ‘The Making of the Book’: Roy Fisher, the Circle Press and the poetics of book art. Literature Compass, 4 (5). pp. 1444-1459. ISSN 1741-4113 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00476.x