'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays
us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth
and sadness for humanity's follies.'
- Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers
'Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative
feeling for language.'
- Geoffrey Lehmann, The Bulletin
'...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer
whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are
directed from the heart as well as the mind.'
- Judith Wright, Poetry No. 4