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Wendy Bardsley's poetry has been praised by such poets as Douglas Dunn, Peter Redgrove and Elaine Feinstein, while John Bayley has described her as having `a great and undoubted talent'.

Of Amphitheatre, Douglas Dunn has described her poetry as `strong, scrupulous, effective and truthful.'

Of Steel Wings, Peter Redgrove comments: `Certain poems - Fanfare, October Apples, Circling, Maya Ceramic Figure - achieve an exceptional quality of immersion in archaic energies and remake the poet's and hence the reader's world.'

Of The Imaginator, her collection for young people, Brian Patten comments: `I don't think Bardsley's poems are exclusively for that weird animal, that mythical creature known as the `youngpeople' - but there is certainly much in them that older kids will identify with. Her work won't frighten them off poetry, it is on their side.'

Details of the books and some selected poems may be seen here: