"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

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

His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, nor swifter greyhound follow, whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, nor ear heard huntsman's halloo'. - William Cowper 'Epitaph on a hare'

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'

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

Syntactically complex, discursive, lyrically rich, yet threaded through with a demotic swagger - Gerard Woodward

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

The eye, it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth, 'Expostulation and Reply'