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

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

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

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling. - Sunday Telegraph

I suppose as I'm explaining myself to others, I'm quintessentially explaining myself to myself. Gerald Stern

My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion