Poetry's about what can't be said. WS Merwin

And again I see the long pouring headland, / And smoking coast with the sea high on the rocks, / The gulls flung from the sea, the dark hooded hills / Swarming with mist, and mist low on the sea - Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, 'The Return'

As activities, writing poetry and climbing have few connections, apart from a heightened sense of being and awareness, of being fully engaged. Andrew Greig

Are words no more than waving, wavering flags? - 'The right word', Imtiaz Dharker

Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling. - Sunday Telegraph

Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry. It cuts her free of the crowd - The Times

I travelled, however, mainly to find places to come to rest in, places to write in, oases.

Bird's is a poetry of ideas, but unexpected, often extraordinary ones - Times Literary Supplement

Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence

Among the finest of our poets. - Melvyn Bragg

The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. But the fact that writers are dealing with essential issues...I think that's a necessary integration of literary writing with what's actually going on in our world. - Marilyn Hacker