One of Australia's most gifted poets of both the natural and the human world.

I go to the rockpool at the slack of tide/ to mind me what my poetry's for. - Jen Hadfield from 'Daed-traa'.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand

I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. - Maxine Kumin

I am a poet who is a woman, not a woman poet. - Ruth Fainlight

There stands the base and root of the living rock /Thirty thousand feet of solid Cumberland. - To the River Duddon, Norman Nicholson

We lie on love's breath - Jan Kemp, 'Puriri'

I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible. - Ted Kooser

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee

Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it... - William Carlos Williams

Things change, become home and we must leave them - Lavinia Greenlaw, 'Guidebooks to the Alhambra'

Informed by a sense of grace, of transcendence... the pieces are grounded in detail, beautifully expressed, subtly luminous. - The Guardian