Comments on Unlike Other Boys
It's a really big book, Alan, in every sense of "big" – and I
congratulate you on it ... I can feel you living and hear you
speaking in every poem – that incomparable eye for an image,
and tone of voice for a very special personal music. But mere
words cannot express admiration enough. I just read and read,
happy to hear your very own voice, grown a good deal more
confident with the years... – James Kirkup
You most definitely have a poet's eye and poet's sense of
pared-down, effective and honed language. And something
better than that: an original way of looking at things, a
capacity for thought and consideration... – Elizabeth Smither
