“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. . . surprising and moving. . . - EDMUND DE WAAL

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

How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

All that was good, all that was fair, all that was me is gone. - Robert Louis Stevenson 'Sing Me A Song of A Lad That Is Gone'

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

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ode to a Skylark'

Lord teach wings how/in the stark silence of these evenings/ in the fine chiselled rock spaces/ to fold and nest... - 'After Heartease New England', Velma Pollard

Vain are the thousand creeds / That move men's hearts... Emily Bronte

Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies