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

His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times

Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'