A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

if the body is a great creation why wait / indoors with it?

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

'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

The balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London