He was associated in particular with Peter Mortimer's Iron, Nick Toczek's The Little Word Machine, and Ian Robinson's Oasis, all of which he helped edit.
His allied interest was in modernist poetry in Belgian Romance dialects, of which he edited and translated two anthologies, The Colour of the Weather (1980) and In the Pupil's Mirror (1997).
Later translations have included selections from Marianne Larsen (Denmark), Gilles Cyr (Quebec) and Serge Pey (France).
[7] Between 2012-2014, Lovelock was part of the editorial team of The Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts at the Fo Guang Shan main monastery in Taiwan.
There he had special responsibility for the four volumes devoted to sculpture,[8] and in April 2019 took part in the encyclopedia's academic presentation during the "Expressions of the Dharma" conference at Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles.