'...a stimulating read...they richly reward rereading...fresh, vibrant...'Nigel Jenkins on Cadillac Temple: haiku sequences'...ebullient, rapscallion, hilarious and tender, Norman Schwenk's poems sing with life...'Maggie Butt on Book of Songs'...it's the humanity that moves me, the various humanity-funny, sad, reflective, ribald...'Jeremy Hooker on Book of Songs and Cadillac Temple'Norman Schwenk is a wordsmith of great quality, someone who can fix a moment or an idea and make it come alive on the page, taking the reader to places he never dreamed of going.'Phil Carradice on The More Deceived: poems about love and lovers'...manages to make a poetry both live and true to a mythology that bears very much on contemporary issues...'Stewart Brown on The Black Goddess