Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes

a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride

He stands among the indispensable poets of modern and contemporary Scotland - Douglas Dunn

'Certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous' Anthony Hecht

The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.

There are few contemporary poets whose work breathes so broadly and generously. - Adam Thorpe