“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”

“Poets must snatch out of time the passionate transitory” – Patrick Kavanagh

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy

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

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

'pizzazz, wit and - astonishing at his age - both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity' -- Fiona Sampson

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