“It’s an excellent sign that Carpenter’s idiosyncratic poems defy categorisation: he’s trying to do something new in every poem, and the results are terrific.” Andrew Johnston
“Carpenter’s is a slightly difficult but original voice which leads you into expecting a conventional vision of human experience then duly shocks you out if it.” Leviathan Quarterly
“Carpenter’s is a slightly difficult but original voice which leads you into expecting a conventional vision of human experience then duly shocks you out if it.” Leviathan Quarterly