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“... in the Arms of Death’: She finds within his touch a lover Kinder than any man could be. Gillian Clarke’s voice is easily recognised. She is as secure among her themes as Seamus Heaney is: similar themes, too – weather and weathering, water-divining, children, waterfalls, skulls, curlews, calving, scything, fallen plums, falling ...”

“... brilliance of Peter Reading, it comes as something of a relief to turn to Letting in the rumour. Gillian Clarke’s sensitive collection is a reminder of the pleasures to be given by poetry that seeks neither to plumb ultimate depths nor to ascend to the ozone layer, but exists alertly, like a wind-generator ‘At One Thousand Feet’, where Nobody ...”

“... Shuttle and others. Geoffrey Hill, Dannie Abse, Denise Levertov, Peter Red-grove, U.A. Fanthorpe, Gillian Clarke, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Elaine Feinstein are all variously represented, opening out the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties as a time of diversity and imaginative enterprise. One poet who appears in neither book, and who surely exemplifies not ...”

“... lover of a woman whom Marian Evans (or George Eliot) already knew, and was to know better: Mary Clarke Mohl, whose style of writing and life might epitomise Marian Evans’s trenchant early views of women’s powers. Mary writes in her journal in 1826, when she was turning back from Cousin to her lover, Fauriel:‘The trouble is,’ I told him, ‘that I ...”