Professor Michael Meehan, Critique and Novelist, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

“Bill’s poetic vision is deeply political, with a determination to retain a sense of the power and freshness of innocence – the possibility, indeed, of a higher form of innocence and freshness of vision, of a kind which need not necessarily die with the onset of knowledge and adult understanding. Bill’s poetry suggest a strong influence (though in verse that is altogether modern, experimental in form, socially well-informed, culturally inclusive in an extraordinary measure and thoroughly politically open-eyed) of the early phase of English Romanticism, Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and indeed, the Immortality ode.”