We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. - The Poetry Review

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry...She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America. Gerald Stern

I travelled, however, mainly to find places to come to rest in, places to write in, oases.

Among the finest of our poets. - Melvyn Bragg