It Comes With a Bit of Song (Salt Modern Poets) - Hardcover

David Grubb’s poems sing out so lustily and irrepressibly ... steady, bright, humane. (Selima Hill)

David Grubb is a poet who brings together in achieved poetic form conscience and sensuous response. (Jon Silkin)

Passion, vigour, insight, sensuous authority are to be found everywhere in David Grubb’s work. (Peter Redgrove)

The poems of David Grubb are exhilarating as a waterfall. They have the clarity of a glass of water. And they shine with a light which is, unmistakably, human love. His poems will move you, delight you and sometimes shake you. He is one of our finest writers. (Adrian Mitchell)

Vibrant, sometimes surreal images enliven extensive literary and metaphysical concerns. (Martyn Halsall Church Times)

A sense of love and appreciation of people in this world. (Judy Gahagan Ambit)

Here is an author writing and watching and listening all the time, someone with the past and the landscape flowing through them, constantly inspiring and challenging him, just as his poems challenge and inspire the reader. ”Out of the Marvellous” is truly marvellous. (Rupert Loydell Stride Magazine)

An acute sensitiveness to human life and problems, religious mysteries, joy, suffering and the pilgrimages of life make these poems gripping, inescapable, creative of a human world. (B M Hill Pennine Platform)

There is a WOW factor in David Grubb’s poems, whether it be the sheer extraordinariness of what he’s describing or in a poem that takes your breath away. (Michael Henry Newsletter Review)

A distinctively unusual yet strikingly honest and evocative autobiography. (John Fowles)

A marvellous, inventive, playful but affecting collection. (John Burnside)|This strong passionate wise collection contains big ambitious poems which ‘ask questions about poetry and the light that gets into words ...’ The book both evokes the profound loneliness every individual feels and offers tender solutions for it. Light indeed gets into the words. (Penelope Shuttle)