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

Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times

The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn

Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence

Intimates' faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. David Constantine.

I think of poetry as an art of seeing, an art by which, in my blindness, I learn to see. - Jeremy Hooker, 'At the Edge'

A jet-age Tennyson - London Review of Books

People do seem to need poetry; it makes our ordinary life feel richer. - Elaine Feinstein

Keep it simple and make it visual seems to be the best idea. - Hugo Williams

The poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen. - Peter Dale