He has created over the last twenty years a poetry of great tenderness in praise of the farming landscape and its human keepers. -- Les Murray

Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross / What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee / What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage -- Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel

He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes

Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

Peacocke's language is shriven, precise and terribly open to the dead, to absence. -- David Morley

Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...