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

'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'

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

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

Memorable poetry of sustained lyrical power - Peter McDonald, TLS

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 balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride

The rhymes and the rhythms are my wet paint - John Whitworth

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent