"What does real independence look like? Possibly something like the work of Thom Gunn." David Orr • The New York Times

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"Briggflatts is a great poem of love and loss, identity and vocation, restlessness and belonging." Paul Batchelor on Basil Bunting • The Guardian

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"Frederick Seidel's champions consistently and disingenuously transform his aesthetic weaknesses into virtues." Ange Mlinko • The Nation

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"His rediscovery, on both sides of the Atlantic, is a major event, because he is one of the finest poets alive." Clive Wilmer on Samuel Menashe • The Guardian

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"A kind of imaginative grace." Robert Anthony Siegel on Basho • LA Times

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"Few poets can have put themselves forward quite so much as Umberto Saba." Peter Hainsworth • TLS

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"Marianne Moore likes to keep everything shifting and vibrating. That the reader is never completely sure suits her purpose." Robert Pinsky • Slate

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