From a review of my latest poetry collection, Spyglass Over The Lagoon:

“the element of song, a kind of verbal vibrancy, runs like a glittering thread throughout…Often enigmatic and richly suggestive…these short poems are cantles, slivers of a whole day, luminous, intrigants. They are also highly controlled and worked liminae, about as contingent and aleatory as Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”…they sing as well as record…and the language vibrates with its possibilities. Blackburn is a skilled craftsman, as well as a scribe of the quotidian. These poems, intensely personal, often funny, and some not without a political reference or two from time to time, fascinate, ask questions, strike resonances in your head.”

Review by David Malcolm in Poetry Salzburg Review 22.