“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

'Must this be a woman's cross? This dissonance between what 'seems' and what 'is?' - Jane McKie, 'Change, Continuous Change'

His sure hand is apparent in every line: syntax and pulse in the service of experience. -- August Kleinzahler

Poems full of light and colour, sensuality and serenity. -- Joan Bakewell

A unique and extraordinary body of work. -- Frances Leviston

Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree

I'm drawn to what you might think of as traditional lyric poetry; it's an enduring, effective, powerful means of expression.

Poetry is a form of embodiment - Christian Campbell

All this was water / in the beginning. Between / us are our legends - 'Chrysanthemum', Diana Bridge