I take what the world throws at me, and spin, twist, skim, fly, flip, throw it back - Selima Hill

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 'Paradise Lost'

Shout Ha! to the Sky - Robert Sullivan

Reality is where things happen - Michael Jackson

Vain are the thousand creeds / That move men's hearts... Emily Bronte

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

On the shelf, vases, goblets, urns / trailing lines of colour, cloud bowls, / sun, moon and earth for an ashram, / all shining in the incisive morning light - 'Blown Glass', Briar Wood

...You no longer /Want to seem what you are, but something /Harmless and familiar: in a landscape/Given to greenness and the cold pastels /Of stubble and field stone... David Wagoner from 'The Principles of Concealment.'

This is work you can't ignore - raw, reckless and more bloody-minded than an older, so-called wiser poet would dare to be - Selima Hill

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

This marvellous book has exceeded my expectations...it displays admirable craftsmanship, a subtle, musical ear and immense variety. John Mole on the Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner, South West Review

Intimates' faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. David Constantine.