Ode to Didcot Power Station

Reviews / Votes

'Sublime - Kit Wright, one of the best poets writing in Britain today' - Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian. 'As a poet he simply has more bounce per ounce' - Patricia Beer, TLS. 'Funny and profoundly human' - Christina Patterson, Sunday Times. 'His poetry is profoundly English in its combining of jaunty rhythms, comic rhymes - with subject-matter that is frequently bleak, blackly funny, and grimly personal. Bereavement, breakdown, failure (particularly in love), the "tears and terrors" or the quiet desperation beneath the surfaces of ordinary English life, a recurring note of grief or sympathy for victims and underdogs - and a persistent strain of remote and self-reproach - these are fairly constant in Wright's work, but so are the metrical ingenuity, the levity, and verbal panache' - Alan Jenkins, Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. 'He has formal virtuosity which is often comic; rumbustious, ribald, benign. But through all this work there is that poignancy, darkness, brush with despair which makes great comic work' - Ruth Padel, Independent on Sunday. 'Masterly yet modest' - Sean O'Brien, TLS.