My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift

The best reading of a poem involves a simultaneous engagement of the eye and ear.

Lord teach wings how/in the stark silence of these evenings/ in the fine chiselled rock spaces/ to fold and nest... - 'After Heartease New England', Velma Pollard

[Her] poems come to us with the intimacy of whispered secrets - Paul Batchelor

Through the sparseness and compression, Laird generates a haunting trove of subtle and enriching tonal orchestrations - Alan Gillis

I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.

If death still comes / we'll strike a pose / and hold our breath / until he goes - Kevin Ireland

Shout Ha! to the Sky - Robert Sullivan

Master of Music / Let my voice be / Clear as he dreamed it / Who fashioned me - 'The Violin Speaks', Ruth Gilbert

Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies

Jackson manages to seamlessly stitch a domestic world to that of her academic interests ... overlapping wit, humour, borrowings, lyricism and an accessible but surprising voice. - Paula Green

Each sharp star speaks of something long gone - 'Cactus', Siobhan Harvey