Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. . . surprising and moving. . . - EDMUND DE WAAL

A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

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

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest; / O born to rule in partial Law's despite, / Resume thy native empire o'er the breast! Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 'The Rights of Women'

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

I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.

A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree. Gerard Manley Hopkins