Artistic Verse Creations of a Lifetime

Wendy Louise 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.'