'To write a poem as a working-class woman is an act of courage, of resistance. To perform it is a revolution' – Joelle Tayor

I'm interested in the power mechanisms, personal and political and sometimes a combination of the two, that prevent people from speaking. Esther Morgan

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It's the light of the oncoming train. - Robert Lowell

The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community...as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct. - Louis MacNeice