'pizzazz, wit and - astonishing at his age - both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity' -- Fiona Sampson

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

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

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

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

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

'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

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

Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

if the body is a great creation why wait / indoors with it?