Go to thy little senseless play; thou dost not heed my lay. - Joanna Baillie 'A Mother To Her Waking Infant'

No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit - Les Murray

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest; / O born to rule in partial Law's despite, / Resume thy native empire o'er the breast! Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 'The Rights of Women'

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

I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.

“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”

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

Jackson manages to seamlessly stitch a domestic world to that of her academic interests ... overlapping wit, humour, borrowings, lyricism and an accessible but surprising voice. - Paula Green

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

Each sharp star speaks of something long gone - 'Cactus', Siobhan Harvey