I was a long bodice partly sewn to a skirt, a hem picking / up everything

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

Bergin's perceptions are sharp, her senses of history, community, and relationships deep and acute, and her technical control over language and form is assured and graceful - Tower Poetry

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

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

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

Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel

A unique and extraordinary body of work. -- Frances Leviston

Anonymous is a well-known and prolific poet.

The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.' - Walter Scott 'Proud Maisie'

Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree

The mountaineer climbs the mountain because it's there; the poet writes poetry so that it should continue to be there.