“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

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.

Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy

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.

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent

He looked upon the garish day with such a wistful eye; the man had killed the thing he loved, and so he had to die. - Oscar Wilde 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'

Go to thy little senseless play; thou dost not heed my lay. - Joanna Baillie 'A Mother To Her Waking Infant'