"This ingenious picture of ritual educational humiliation would be a great choice for the National Curriculum, if its constructors want students to come alive to poetry. Not a chance." Helen Vendler on Simon Armitage • The New Republic

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"For the first time since the early 19th century, American poetry may be about to run out of greatness." David Orr • The New York Times

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"Poetry is its own answer, its own end." Peter Porter talks to Sarah Crown • The Guardian

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"In our dreams, Anna Freud said, we can have our eggs cooked exactly as we want them, but we can’t eat them." Adam Phillips • London Review of Books

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"All there is is confusion, pretense, contradiction, and instinct." Michael Hofmann • Poetry

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