"There is no such thing as a silent poem."

"There is an extra loss for a Welsh poet writing in English, and that is, the longing for Welsh, the secret language..…"

"Listening to a Gillian Clarke poem is an intensely sensual experience, concrete as it is musical."

"Though there are exceptions in all species, many useful border plants — s, s, members of the , s — have foliage that …"

"For an extrovert April scheme of brilliant yellow and red, intolerable to a melancholy poet such as Eliot, combine a …"

"As far as western Europe is concerned, the 's story began in Turkey, from where in the sixteenth century, European tr…"

"All of my gardening coats have been my husband's cast-offs. He is sufficiently bigger than me for the coats to be roo…"

"The book opens like a , with the author trekking after native guides along a snake-infested trail through a in the wi…"

"Karen has many privileges. She must learn not to take, always, the extra inch when the ell is so gladly granted."

"These insolent words, hurled at it, convulsed the livid face that fronted Karen. And suddenly, holding Karen's should…"