"This was really quite wonderful, beautifully sustained throughout, combining a very high level of technical ingenuity, witty and comic characterisations, and a clear, coherent sense of narrative right up to the end. This was a virtuoso imitation of one of Swift's most famous poems, "On Poetry, A Rhapsody", and showed the writer's detailed and imaginative appreciation of what Swift was up to in that poem. Swift's original is a satire on Grub Street: this version is a comic variation upon that theme, now set in the brutal and demeaning world of Irish commercial publishing. Perhaps above all, I really liked the 'persona' in the poem, the character of the author struggling to be published, desperate and deluded in equal measure." (Professor Joe McMinn - Judge)