John Fairfax's poems return us to the important sources: spells they braid linger and haunt like sweetness of a wood after rain. - Adam Thorpe

Schmidt is always a stringent poet, never shy of painful truth - Helen Dunmore

Paying attention - listening - to one kind of complexity tells us something about the complexity of experience in general. Fiona Sampson

A large, ironic Whitman of the industrial heartland - Edward Hirsch

Go for it, petal. Nothing's as real as what you write. (from Writing to Onegin, Ruth Padel)

Not a graceful mind... a mind of grace, an altogether different and higher thing - Theodore Roethke