"In any poem of value there seems to be some poetic element, some inner intensity, which is separable from the language it is embodied in." Clive Wilmer on Ted Hughes's translations • TLS

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"Within the month I was thinking, damn it. Could I have skipped my MFA program... if the blogs had arrived sooner?" Shanna Compton • Poetry Foundation

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"Underneath the romance he saw things as they were, and wrote them down as if to record the texture of life were his deepest compulsion." Clive James on Keats • The Times

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"So is it any good? No. Absolutely not. Good is not the word. It's far too shocking and too strange to be good." Ian Sansom on Auden • The Guardian

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"Poetry can renew itself in part by writing against the 'the habits and visions' of poetry itself while still seeking effects central to the poetic." David McCooey on Australian poetry • Poetry International

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