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

In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley

Gloria Rawlinson's poems, with their romantic, whimsical and often fantastical themes, were welcomed by readers enduring the unpleasant realities of the Depression - Riemke Ensing

Air falls under the heavy yoke of bells - 'Sunday Morning', Denis Glover

Gissa smile Sun, giss yr best / good mawnin' one, fresh 'n cool like - 'Sun O (2)', Hone Tuwhare

Trenches of night between us ... - 'War History', Sam Hunt

Who hoards the twilight in an old bottle of broken words, / is yet forgiven, having known only your shadows. - 'Poem beyond Love', Richard Reeve

A dynamic reader, Eggleton has a rapid-fire delivery that releases a torrent of images, some startling, ugly, or funny - Greg O'Brien

All those / accumulated moments gathered as ancestors / intent on discarding time. Moving from sorrow / towards a preference for light - 'Day of Remembrance: The Ancestors', Riemke Ensing

In Smither's poems, the simplest details can be trapdoors to eternity - to 'take in life' can be a promise or a threat. - Hugh Roberts