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

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

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

Lord teach wings how/in the stark silence of these evenings/ in the fine chiselled rock spaces/ to fold and nest... - 'After Heartease New England', Velma Pollard

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

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

Through the sparseness and compression, Laird generates a haunting trove of subtle and enriching tonal orchestrations - Alan Gillis

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs?. John Clare

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. - Gwendolyn Brooks

His poems are direct and arresting, playful, full of startling imagery, and are hilarious, passionate and erotic as often as they are political - often managing to be all these things at once - Maura Dooley

The Laskey effect...is of suddenly sensing that more meaning is inherent in 'ordinary' moments than we were expecting. - Mark Halliday