"At the end of the day, I suppose, I feel some covenant with the ... unlettered." Seamus Heaney talks to James Campbell • The Guardian

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"Only in the mother tongue can one speak one's own truth." Celan and Amichai, by John Felstiner • The New Republic

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"Pound allowed us to see, for the first time, the precise movements of the gear wheels inside these little black boxes." Four poets discuss the Chinese written character as a medium for poetry • Poetry London

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"Far more than later ones, first novels exude the spirit of their age." Craig Seligman • BookForum

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"A problem arises when an average poet like Billy Collins is hailed as one of the best that American poetry has to offer." Ernest Hilbert • Contemporary Poetry Review

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"The price of ploughing a lonely furrow is often to mistake it for the only path across the field." Clive James on A.D. Hope • TLS

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"Samuel Menashe shows an alien's abiding fascination with the sheer peculiarity of American speech." David Kaufmann • The Forward

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"I assume myself to be an average human being, and I figure if I make things clear and interesting to myself, others might find them so." Richard Wilbur • Poetry Foundation

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"While interactive narrative may be a nonstarter, interactive poetry works remarkably well." Clive Thompson • Collision Detection

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"If it was possible for somebody to invent a poet then it seemed possible to invent yourself as a poet." Laurie Duggan • Text

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"A poem is not about; it is out of and to." Adrienne Rich • Virginia Quarterly Review

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