"Let’s take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we?" Wislawa Szymborska's advice to aspiring poets • Poetry Foundation

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"A certain amount of civilisation depends on intelligent smattering." Frank Kermode talks to John Sutherland • The Guardian

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"What most British poets are doing most of the time is making speeches." Peter Riley on Robert Adamson • Shearsman

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"The poems are alive with a mercurial continuity." Douglas Houston on Geoffrey Hill • Poetry Review

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"A poet's absences, as well as his or her silences, can tell us much." Douglas Dunn on George Mackay Brown • TLS

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"The dominant mode in American poetry over the past quarter-century is a kind of secular plainsong." Steven Ratiner on Jane Hirshfield • The Washington Post

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"I write because I want to get a feeling of mystery or surprise." Alice Munro talks to Lisa Dickler Awano • Virginia Quarterly Review

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