A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

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

Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

I was a long bodice partly sewn to a skirt, a hem picking / up everything

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

'Every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning.' Emily Berry

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

God is the perfect poet.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves. Lorna Goodison

In these times, we should be glad of this voice. - Kate Clanchy, The Guardian