“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

He has created over the last twenty years a poetry of great tenderness in praise of the farming landscape and its human keepers. -- Les Murray

Never stop looking at the world. Or wondering at it. You will never run out of words.

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

I was a long bodice partly sewn to a skirt, a hem picking / up everything

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma

Dense yet taut poems, grounded in an everyday enriched by an intelligent, idiosyncratic awareness -- Carrie Etter

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

The divisions of real life can disappear in poetry. Partly through metaphor, partly through the surprise of a poet's vision, we are shown a landscape that is both with and without walls.

We belong to the houses we live in. ('Hoopoe')

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

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