A church without a poem is a steeple without a bell, a choir without a hymn. Thank you Kevin Gardner for composing such a glorious sound, and from friends old and new. It will enhance every church visitor's bliss.

Sir Simon Jenkins

A plangent, devastating elegy for a Church of England apparently in its death throes … One reads it with mingled admiration of the verse and sadness at the dereliction of so many English parish churches.

Bevis Hillier

An anthology that gave me even more pleasure than I expected

Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph

A treat from cover to cover

Catholic Herald