A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.

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

Poetry is a form of embodiment - Christian Campbell

My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift

Poems of an alert imagination and a strongly original mind, poems that run along the dangerous edge of things, risky and skilful as an acrobat. - UA Fanthorpe

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand

Markham is tireless in his resistance to orthodoxy, whether artistic, cultural or political. He speaks as he finds, in multiple, unpredictable voices. (Sean O'Brien)

With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood