“Skinner
has poems that for sheer beauty take your head off.”
John Gardner
on A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane
“If
you want to know how real poetry reads, buy this book, read it, and keep it.”
Leonard Blackstone
on Selected Poems
“Skinner
does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the loose, and does them
all wonderfully well.”
John W. Sexton
Poetry Ireland News
“As
fine and engaging a testament to the complicated nature of simple pleasures as
any in contemporary poetry.”
Wayne Burroughs
Staples
“Skinner’s
mischievous eye never takes the ordinary for granted.”
Jennifer Matthews
Southword
“In
a time when many poets cannot resist the grand gesture, Skinner’s art is the
achievement of presence in the places we go to: in field, kitchen, bar,
dictionary, anecdote, joke, love bower.”
James Liddy
on Learning to Spell
"Zucchini"
“This
is a stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purposes, weird and tragic
characters, and should be read from start to finish.”
Aidan Murphy
on The Bears & Other Poems
“Skinner
works a seemingly homespun Gothicity which is yet quietly artful in the way it
jolts the reader out of the even tenor of pleasant expectations.”
Tom Hubbard
Poetry Ireland Review
“There
are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a burning building to
retrieve. Make no mistake, An Upside Down World is one of them.”
Frank Golden
on An Upside Down World