“For all his occasional gaucheness and undue display, he is the most thoughtful and provocative poet writing in English today.”

“When he retires at the age of 65, he is bereft, a man adrift, but he sweetly embraces his new life with all the gaucheness of a teenager on a gap year.”

“I used to loathe its happy-clappy gaucheness, but now I quite like it, despite knowing that there's nothing gauche about its indomitable owner.”