Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive - The Times

At once catalogues of ordinary, precise vision...and poems of musical and metaphysical ambition, Maguire is the heiress of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Adam Phillips, The Observer

But the exact place where the self and the other touch, where there's the possibility of either transformation or stasis...that's the place that interests me most. - Jo Shapcott

Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation. - The Sunday Times

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen

Why are we frightened of the word for love? - 'Language teaching: naming', Jenny Joseph

Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')