'James W. Wood is a talent to be reckoned with: both lyrical and humane, he has a technical ability with language that shines through every poem. Jane McKie, founding editor, Knucker Press James W Wood cares about the precision and possibilities of language and about honesty when dissecting the subtleties of human emotion, neither one to the exclusion of the other. His work is a pleasure to read and, when questioning or provocative, none the less pleasurable for that. -