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

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

The balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

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

The rhymes and the rhythms are my wet paint - John Whitworth

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent

Bryce's phrasing is precise, her word-play sensuous, smart and snappy. The Guardian.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'

Syntactically complex, discursive, lyrically rich, yet threaded through with a demotic swagger - Gerard Woodward

Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky

Trenches of night between us ... - 'War History', Sam Hunt