“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Dense yet taut poems, grounded in an everyday enriched by an intelligent, idiosyncratic awareness -- Carrie Etter

We belong to the houses we live in. ('Hoopoe')

Shout Ha! to the Sky - Robert Sullivan

Reality is where things happen - Michael Jackson

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

Are words no more than waving, wavering flags? - 'The right word', Imtiaz Dharker

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. Paul Muldoon.