Yknow, somewhere along the line, Ezra Pound and John Cooper Clarke rolled dice for this mans soul, and I cant say who won. Marie Marshall, author of "I am not a Fish", nominated for the 2013 T S Eliot Prize Perhaps the most striking feature of this volume is the poets portrayal of humanity, which deprives us of any escape from the darker, more insidious depths of our human condition. Richard Vallance, editor of "Phoenix Rises from the Ashes, an international anthology of sonnets" Counterpointing the abstruse and the inescapably basic, these poems draw upon a power that surprises... Hislops retro-modernist recovery of vision argues for a refreshed perception of poetic possibility. R.W. Haynes, author of "Horton Foote" Poetry that delivered me to a speculation I wouldnt have reached otherwise. And I find thats a critical function of Hislops poetry. It gathers, then points away. Norman Ball, author of "Serpentrope"