From harmony, from heavenly harmony, this universal frame began. - John Dryden 'A Song For St Cecilia's Day'

'Certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous' Anthony Hecht

Syntactically complex, discursive, lyrically rich, yet threaded through with a demotic swagger - Gerard Woodward

Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky

Trenches of night between us ... - 'War History', Sam Hunt

Lord teach wings how/in the stark silence of these evenings/ in the fine chiselled rock spaces/ to fold and nest... - 'After Heartease New England', Velma Pollard

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

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

A dynamic reader, Eggleton has a rapid-fire delivery that releases a torrent of images, some startling, ugly, or funny - Greg O'Brien

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs?. John Clare

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

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