Here is a poet with a commanding style; her voice is entirely her own, both rich and laconic - Penelope Shuttle

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best kept secrets. -- John Ashbery

Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent

Poems full of light and colour, sensuality and serenity. -- Joan Bakewell

Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma