Tom Leonard’s poems are popular and challenging – satirical, experimental or even surreal. Wildly funny or savagely disturbing his work speaks for human compassion (his most recent collection is called Being a Human Being) and for the necessity ‘not to be complicit’ in a world that is saturated with sound bites, social inequality and corporate flannel.

..... Leonard continues to be angrier, funnier and more insightful than many voices on the contemporary poetic scene. Even the surliest of readers will find it hard to resist the blend of subtlety, honesty and emotion that pervades his work. It is a testament to the many voices and stylistic bravura of Tom Leonard, all of which confirm his importance as a writer, both within Scotland and far beyond.      
Matt Maguire. Review of Access to Silence.

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