'True poetry, sensationally assembled.' Peter Porter

His sure hand is apparent in every line: syntax and pulse in the service of experience. -- August Kleinzahler

The last English modernist ? Guardian

I understood that my words could be used as a weapon. James Matthews

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare

His keen observation invokes an expanded cognition and a braver engagement with one's personhood. -- Liesl Jobson

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, the rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. - G.K. Chesterton 'The Rolling English Road'

And I could see that child's one eye which seemed to laugh, and say with glee: 'what caused my death you'll never know, perhaps my mother murdered me.' - W.H. Davies - 'The Inquest'

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'

All that was good, all that was fair, all that was me is gone. - Robert Louis Stevenson 'Sing Me A Song of A Lad That Is Gone'

I am the Smoke King. I am black! I am swinging in the sky, I am wringing worlds awry. - W. E. B. DuBois - 'The Song of The Smoke'