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

Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot

the patron saint of poetry - Carol Ann Duffy

What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage