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

Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

The last English modernist ? Guardian

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

Lucid observations, smart conceits and insight into the contemporary world as a fragmented, self-constructed thing. - The Independent

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian

His keen observation invokes an expanded cognition and a braver engagement with one's personhood. -- Liesl Jobson

Poems full of light and colour, sensuality and serenity. -- Joan Bakewell

Nor can I drop my lids, nor shade my brows, but there he stands beside the lifted sash. - Frederick Tuckerman 'An Upper Chamber In A Darkened House'