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

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." Lord Byron

An exciting new voice ... his poems are carefully crafted and have a catholic appeal ... there is something painterly in how Brandon guides you through his work, like a diagonal guiding the eye. - Poetry London

Keenly felt; passionately, precisely and lyrically conveyed - Simon Armitage

One of Australia's most gifted poets of both the natural and the human world.

The combination of satiric spirit and exuberant style - half appalled, half-enchanted - is the outstanding characteristic of burns's poetry - Australian Book Review

Paradoxes interest me and the desire for beauty, for meaning, for whatever might counterbalance our commodified world... (Peter Boyle)

The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes

Louise Bogan's art is compactness compacted. Emotion with her, as she has said of certain fiction, is 'itself form, the kernel which builds outward form from inward intensity.' Marianne Moore

We must travel in the direction of our fear. - John Berryman

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,/Young, heroic, mild;/And some incurable, twisted,/Shrieking, dumb, defiled. - 'Can You Remember?, Edmund Blunden