Air falls under the heavy yoke of bells - 'Sunday Morning', Denis Glover

In Smither's poems, the simplest details can be trapdoors to eternity - to 'take in life' can be a promise or a threat. - Hugh Roberts

There are few contemporary poets whose work breathes so broadly and generously. - Adam Thorpe

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

She is all States, and all princes I, / Nothing else is. John Donne

The poem is an object which we make and set down, like an antique torso in an abandoned city, good, self-sufficient, durable, waiting for the people to come back. - M K Joseph

'A poet of sassy urban heartache, deftness, humour and considerable ingenuity' - Michael Glover

I am a desperate man who demands to connect...who denounces the dullness of money and status...who will not bow down to acolayed or success - 'i am the strange hero of hunger', Billy Childish

Nature is Owen's alembic. She writes with delicacy and strength, passion and intellect. - David Gilbey, Australian Book Review

Particles of observation, incomplete phrases and strange juxtapositions seem welded by some hidden charge into a power of feeling. - John Powell Ward

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