“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma

Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. - The Poetry Review

Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - Robert Burns 'Song: ae fond kiss and then we sever'

I'm in it for the discovery. - Michael Donaghy