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

Work as if you live in the early days of a better world -- Alasdair Gray via Dennis Lee

He has created over the last twenty years a poetry of great tenderness in praise of the farming landscape and its human keepers. -- Les Murray

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

Never stop looking at the world. Or wondering at it. You will never run out of words.

Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness - Edwin Morgan

There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)