Dynamo

What Writers and Critics Think

• He can make the ordinariness of everyday existence gleam without being flashy… These are highly quotable poems, packed with lines you want to read aloud to anyone within earshot.

  D A Prince, The Friday Poem

• Yates’ way of seeing is an admission that nothing is making sense, an open-eyed, and strangely brilliant examination of the zeitgeist as if viewed by a child, or from another planet… Yates informs his vision with a sense of stilled silence, slowing his narrative to a recumbent pace, to yield the panoptic distillation of a train journey in moments of staggering, simplistic beauty.

  - Steve Whitaker, The Yorkshire Times

• Many of these poems memorably manage to capture moments in time like photographic snapshots… Yates is insightful on the detail of modern life, looking at every day experiences in different ways.

  Poetic Justice magazine