"There is a pared-down spareness and succinctness to R G Bishops poems that is most attractive."

Harry Chambers: Peterloo Poets

"... Refreshing, beautiful writing, a poet who deserves to be widely read."

Masry McGregor: The Good Society Review

'... Never wastes a word.  His imagery is rich but uncluttered, his management of rhyme and rhythm subtle.  He can work within the poetic tradition yet mint new coinage in todays world of chemotherapy and holes in the ozone layer.  Above all else he readily tackles the great themes of love, god and death with the ambiguity they deserve ...'

Gloria B Yates: Micropress Yates, (Australia)

'Bob Bishop writes without rhetoric or rancour of a world which is always moving on, sometime alongside, sometimes ahead, and never quite right.  Nothing in his style is over the top but there is plenty to surprise in the jumbled conjunctions of everyday life ...  Passion runs deep, but is presented with restraint.  There are intelligent, thoughtful poems which stand above the raucous crowd of the current poetry scene, and they deserve to be widely read.'

Jeffery Wheatley.  Guildford Poetry Press

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