The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.

The Laureate of Gloucestershire

Musical, deftly patterned poems that are the products of a supple susceptibility and determined intelligence - Adam Foulds

Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt

Sitting around an old table/they drew lines across the map/dividing the place/I would call my country. Choman Hardi 'Lausanne, 1923'

In these times, we should be glad of this voice. - Kate Clanchy, The Guardian

The kind of poetry that imbues the everyday, the tarnished and burnished, with the possibilities of the transcendent - The Times

...and the poem will not care that some walk past/afraid of the words we try out on our tongues/ hoping this finally is the language of God, /that he might hear it and respond. Kei Miller, from 'Speaking in Tongues'.

Bird's is a poetry of ideas, but unexpected, often extraordinary ones - Times Literary Supplement

Paradoxes interest me and the desire for beauty, for meaning, for whatever might counterbalance our commodified world... (Peter Boyle)

We are drawn to edges, to our own/parapets and sea-walls: - 'Apart', Robin Robertson

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.