“Gillis is the dark star of contemporary Irish poetry, and a major talent.”

–Conor O’Callaghan, Poetry

 

“one of the finest poets of his generation, in Ireland and the UK”

—Justin Quinn, Irish Review​​

 

“The first time I looked into Alan Gillis’s poetry, I was completely taken by it. Even though there was so much to take in at first glance, I was immediately hooked by its linguistic exuberance, its intelligence, its black humor, its sometimes zany flights of imagination that are grounded in an emotional reality … the poems are often gloriously funny, formally brilliant, jinking deftly between streetwise talk and mordant rhetoric.”

–Ciaran Carson