Praise for Knute Skinner's poetry:
"Skinner has poems that for sheer beauty take your head off." -- John
Gardner, on "A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane"
"If you want to know how real poetry reads, buy this book, read it, and
keep it." -- Leonard Blackstone, on "Selected Poems"
"Skinner does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the
loose, and does them all wonderfully well." -- John W. Sexton, Poetry
Ireland News
"As fine and engaging a testament to the complicated nature of simple
pleasures as any in contemporary poetry." -- Wayne Burroughs, Staples
"Skinner's mischievous eye never takes the ordinary for granted." --
Jennifer Matthews, Southword
"In a time when many poets cannot resist the grand gesture, Skinner's
art is the achievement of presence in the places we go to: in field,
kitchen, bar, dictionary, anecdote, joke, love bower." -- James Liddy,
on "Learning to Spell 'Zucchini'"
"This is a stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purposes, weird
and tragic characters, and should be read from start to finish." --
Aidan Murphy, on "The Bears & Other Poems"
"Skinner works a seemingly homespun Gothicity which is yet quietly
artful in the way it jolts the reader out of the even tenor of pleasant
expectations." -- Tom Hubbard, Poetry Ireland Review
"There are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a
burning building to retrieve. Make no mistake, 'An Upside Down World' is
one of them." -- Frank Golden, on "An Upside Down World"
