His poems are meant for everyone ... A genuinely popular poet, who deserves to be better known. - Peter Porter

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

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

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

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

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

The last English modernist ? Guardian