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“… spiced with insight, wit and cross-cultural sharpness, this is poetry as celebration of fundamental age-old issues like death, love, language and life itself..” . . . Read More

Western Mail

“After a lifetime of travelling, and six books of poetry on the move, Landeg White in “Arab Work” is trying something new – with poems about settling, building and planting in a country where he is a stranger.” . . . Read More

“It would be unfair and misleading not to say at the very outset that this is anything other than the finest collection of verse I’ve read this year.”. . . Read More

Suite 101 New British Poetry: 9 Dr J D Ballam

“I praised Landeg White’s last book to the skies; Bounty is even better. Actually, it can’t be compared this brilliant account of the mutiny and its aftermath through the voice of Michael Byrne, Captain Bligh’s blind Irish fiddler, is a kind of balladic counterpoint to Derek Walcott’s epic Omerus”. . . . Read More

The Observer

“TP resembles that dream of a “special delivery” described in its second poem: a parcel arriving out of the blue, months after its despatch, full of half-remembered items from another life. The parcel of Landeg White’s life contains more of interest than most.”. . . . Read More

Times Literary Supplement

“With South, the reader senses a writer who is his own man and functioning on top form. It is astounding that he has been excluded from our modest pantheon.”. . . . Read More

Poetry Wales

“For Captain Stedman is a sensitive, carefully crafted collection, which besides its alert colonial commentaries offers other pleasures – West Indian speech patterns zestfully recreated, or an evocative description of flamingos – that make highly enjoyable reading.”. . . . Read More

Times Literary Supplement

“The poems are unflaggingly good, with an Audenesque ease of utterance overlaying anger, and a sensual vividness that has one wiping the dust from the eyes. The best surprise of the year so far”. . . . Read More

The Observer

“Mau: 39 Poems from Malawi was published by the Writers Group at the University of Malawi in July 1971. Under Dr Banda’s dictatorship with its absurdly stupid system of censorship, the pamphlet was a breakthrough and quickly became a best-seller among readers who had no difficulty de-coding its message. . ” Read More