“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself” – Derek Walcott

“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.

“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

F. T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation. -- John Ashbery