Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel

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

It's an existential act, it's vocational, a necessity, a way of working things out.

Poetry is attendance upon the world - Janet Frame

Poems of an alert imagination and a strongly original mind, poems that run along the dangerous edge of things, risky and skilful as an acrobat. - UA Fanthorpe

Writing that is full of remarkable, concentrated and pungent images - The Sunday Times

I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. - Maxine Kumin