“A poet of power and skill“
– Gerry Cambridge

“A book to be relished for its unexpectedness“
– Edwin Morgan

“I regard Dick Davis’ Baucis and Philemon as the great sonnet of my generation, and I hope that in Stocks we are seeing Davis’ worthy heir in the making“
– Timothy Murphy

“Stocks really can do it, and this book, entirely comprising sonnets, is the proof“
– Helena Nelson

“Physically vivid, inventive, but controlled by manners of line, breath, cadence and rhyme“
– George Szirtes