If you think you can do it and you want to do it - then do it. - Adrian Henri

Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation. - The Sunday Times

I think of poetry as an art of seeing, an art by which, in my blindness, I learn to see. - Jeremy Hooker, 'At the Edge'

Where we are we belong,/Here or another place/How the tree speaks, talks/Of a fox passing through... - 'The Dream', Ken Smith

Where is the spirit that touched the hearts / Lightly - chameleon colours of home? - 'Visiting Zomba Plateau', Jack Mapanje

There is something white stars say to you/and you throw off all the night to hear the sound of falling snow. - 'White Noise', Kevin Crossley-Holland

...anything I have seen, I've only seen by virtue of having been very inattentive or rebellious at school, and looking at what was out of the corner of the picture, what was outside the frame. - Roy Fisher

The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light. - George Mackay Brown

A writer is not interested in explaining reality; he's interested in capturing it. - Brendan Kennelly

I do mock literature and take it seriously at the same time, but anyone who is passionately attached to a football team will have similar mixed feelings - Ian Duhig

everyday life is turned into something instantly more compelling and mysterious... there's an undeniable beauty at the dark heart of these strange poems - Neil Rollinson.

If I didn't write poetry I think I'd explode. - Charles Causley