Great Regulars: In these poems, drawn from the experiences

of soldiers who fought in the Gulf, Bosnian and Malayan wars, and originally aired as part of a 2007 documentary, [Simon] Armitage shows us that modern war poetry, like modern combat, is provisional, chancy, unresolved. These are poems of survivors--the damaged, exhausted men who return from war in body but never, wholly, in mind.

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: The Not Dead

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Peter Bennet's handling of folklore, his watchful, thicketed landscapes, the stateliness of his language--all fit themselves perfectly to winter. While the sun's glare might diminish poems in which "goblins chuckle" and "hills ... shed darkness from their stature/beyond the graveyard", their impact swells as nights draw in and days turn colder.

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: The Glass Swarm

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