"This book [The Golden Age] alone strikes me as among the most distinguished by younger British poets known to me," said celebrated critic Michael Hamburger. "Poems which combine formal accomplishment with a lively inventiveness in treating a range of subjects - notably the foreign landscapes which he knows well and renders with accuracy and sympathy", and "singularly skilful and attractive poems - a young poet worth following and worth listening to" said British poets Alan Brownjohn and Kevin Crossley- Holland.

Added poet and critic Stephen Romer, these are "very fine, fully focused, and rhythmically achieved pieces that are a pleasure to read - and also some discursive surprises - there is an undeniable lyric power too - I foresee even more powerful things ahead".

Those things ahead included the poems actually about Hungary in his second volume The Musical Box of Wonders: the poems here are often about Asia. But there is plenty to enjoy, as well as to measure against the author's declared intention to make a poetry ebook that really works.

"I was determined to make this the best ebook I could, " he writes. "I did my best with page breaks and formatting to give the best ereading experience possible for poetry readers. I stuck to Kindle for its superiority in rendering poetry."

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