Through the sparseness and compression, Laird generates a haunting trove of subtle and enriching tonal orchestrations - Alan Gillis

Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'

Shout Ha! to the Sky - Robert Sullivan

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

Each sharp star speaks of something long gone - 'Cactus', Siobhan Harvey

A poem comes to be written ... when a certain phrase occurs to the poet and seems to touch off a whole train of ideas and associations and as it were fuse them together. - Charles Brasch

How concerned Paterson is to emphasize the continuity of human experience, from ancient times to now ... he does so from a standpoint of compassion for human frailty. - Jack Ross

Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry's about what can't be said. WS Merwin

I trust my imagination and love of language to get me there. Anthony Lawrence

John Fairfax's poems return us to the important sources: spells they braid linger and haunt like sweetness of a wood after rain. - Adam Thorpe

Poetry matters because it is a tool for helping us to discover who we are. As individuals, as Caribbean peoples, as citizens of the world. Olive Senior