pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

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

There are strange Hells within the minds War made. - Ivor Gurney, 'Strange Hells'

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

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

The rhymes and the rhythms are my wet paint - John Whitworth

the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian

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

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare

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

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