"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.

Valerie Gillies writes like the wind and jinks like a hare in the fields of language - The Scotsman

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

Anonymous is a well-known and prolific poet.

The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.' - Walter Scott 'Proud Maisie'

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet. Gillian Clark

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge