Gerard Woodward

Praise for After The Deafening

A kind of punk anthropologist, his unsettling imagination violates all the thresholds between inner and outer.

London Review of Books

Vivid and rarely whimsical.

The Observer

There are enough poems in this collection which are both felt AND written to justify Woodward's claim on our attention. Where he exhibits emotional generosity, he is very good indeed.

Carol Ann Duffy

A kind of punk anthropologist, his unsettling imagination violates all the thresholds between inner and outer.

London Review of Books

Vivid and rarely whimsical.

The Observer

There are enough poems in this collection which are both felt AND written to justify Woodward's claim on our attention. Where he exhibits emotional generosity, he is very good indeed.

Carol Ann Duffy

A kind of punk anthropologist, his unsettling imagination violates all the thresholds between inner and outer.

London Review of Books

Vivid and rarely whimsical.

The Observer

There are enough poems in this collection which are both felt AND written to justify Woodward's claim on our attention. Where he exhibits emotional generosity, he is very good indeed.

Carol Ann Duffy

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