Alison Oldham, Ham & High , 6th January 2006:
In the Highlife, Highgate section of his poem 'A Fish out of Water', South African poet David Wright described feeling alienated "Among strangers and whisky at a contemporary saturnalia/ The music on loud and the talk kept small." read more

Kim Rooney, www.hagsharlotsheroines.com, read more

Poetry Book Society Bulletin , Issue 207, winter 2005:
This book gathers selections of the work of well known poets made by members of their family: Thomas Blackburn selected by Julia Blackburn; Lawrence Durrell selected by Francoise Kestman Durrell; W S Graham selected by Nessie Dunsmuir; Robert Graves selected by Beryl Graves; Harold Pinter selected by Antonia Fraser; Ann Ridler selected by Vivian Ridler; C H Sisson selected by Nora Sisson; Edward Thomas selected by Myfanwy Thomas; David Wright selected by Oonagh Swift. read more

Michael Glover's Christmas poetry books selection The Independent , 2nd December 2005:
The Tenth Muse , edited by Antony Astbury, began life as a series of pamphlets. read more

Inspired by the best of motives
Robert Nye, The Scotsman , Saturday 29th October 2005
"I suddenly wondered one day why on earth there were no selections made by poets' wives or muses and how wonderful it would be to have, say, Mrs Shakespeare's or Mrs Wordsworth's choices." read more