A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better world -- Alasdair Gray via Dennis Lee

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

Ron Butlin is that rare breed - a poet who takes the novel form and shows it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality. - Ian Rankin

'pizzazz, wit and - astonishing at his age - both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity' -- Fiona Sampson

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke