One of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing

No American poet writes better than Louise Glück, perhaps none can lead us so deeply into our own nature

It is difficult to think of another living poet whose voice contains so much electrifying undercurrent, whose rhythms are under such control, but whose work is also so exposed and urgent.

A tremendous poet ... Louise Glück has spent a lifetime showing us how to make language both mean something and hold everything

Put together, these compact volumes have a great novel's cohesiveness and raking moral intensity. They display a supple and prosecutorial mind interrogating not merely her own life but also the sensual and political nature of the world that spins around it. . . . No other poet slices with such accuracy and deadly intent . . . Glück is fearless.

Glück is among the most moving poets of our era . . . This voice is not going to go away.

As with other great poets, Glück does not invite paraphrase. Her poems at their best--and they are very often at their best--embody not just the rage to order, but also the rage to identify a 'truth' that no order can approximate or touch.

Glück is as important and influential a poet as we have in America . . . Glück's work is all edges . . . the sharper ones can inflict heavenly hurt, where the meanings are. If you want to know about the last half-century of American poetry, you need to read these poems."

You read a passage by Glück and think, Ah yes, of course, this is how it is. She has the extraordinary writer's gift of making clear what is, outside the world of her poem, complex ... [and] a compassionate, comprehensive vision of human understanding and destiny. Her poetry, for all its huge distinction, its vibrant intelligence and its beauty, has never lost the ability to serve society, or the reader.

Glück is unparalleled in finding beauty in tribulation more so than any American poet since Emily Dickinson.

Glück's poems face truths that most people, most poets, deny ... A Glück book can seem both visceral and cerebral, full of thought and full of grit and pith. If the earliest successes echoed Sylvia Plath, the latest reach beyond American poetry, to the melancholy generosity of Anton Chekhov, the shifting perspectives of Alice Munro.

Glück's voice is like no other in modern American poetry. Her poetic domain--like that of Wallace Stevens--lies in the seclusion of analytic thought. The seamless continuity of her verse suggests a mind in perpetual meditation, deliberating in a state of waking dream. Her laserlike intensity purifies as it objectifies and erodes, leaving an indelible impression on the reader.

Glück explores--with growing mastery and imagination, candor and wide-ranging inquiry, intensity and restraint--the turmoil of family life; the fever, bliss, and misery of lust and love; the circular battle with the self; age and death. For 50 years, Glück has been writing poems of formal elegance, psychic intimacy, brainy fusion, emotional acuity, and aesthetic splendor. Her assembled life's work is magnificent.

Though Glück has held national fame since the late 1970s for her terse, pared-down poems, this first career-spanning collected may be the most widely noted, and the most praised, collected poems in some time.

A rare and high imagination ... Glück's poems are delicately intense, spun out of fire and air, with a tensile strength that belies their fragility. Everything she touches turns to music and legend

Glück is a poet to guide us through the frightening world

Glück's is a voice unlike any other, teeming with phrases and stanzas that are sets of instructions on how to be human

[Serpell captures] the child's-eye perspective with great flair...along with the secrecy and judgement of the adult world

An endlessly innovative and deeply moving exploration of grief and family

Highly accomplished

This raw and powerful read shows Carrie growing and learning, about herself as much as others. Though she's an abrasive character, readers will cheer her on every step of the way

TJR is surely the queen of escapist fiction

This top-rank tale of beating the odds is full of heart and breezy charm

Altogether, it makes for a gripping and engaging read about a woman persevering against all odds, recognising your limits and knowing when to push back. As well as a complex and nuanced character study, Carrie Soto is Back offers its readers a warm-hearted story of the love between a father and a daughter, as well a tender journey of learning how to love yourself and open up to others too. Between the action-packed tennis matches, Carrie's emotional reckoning and the wider commentary of women having to continuously fight for recognition in male-dominated fields, Taylor Jenkins Reid has crafted another compelling novel that effortlessly draws in readers and will no doubt keep them thinking about Carrie Soto long after they turn the final page

At times, her prose is so engaging that you feel as though you are waiting on the baseline while Soto gets ready to serve an unstoppable ace

In Carrie Soto is Back, as at Flushing Meadows this and next month, there are great rivalries, millions of dollars and legacies on the line. Letting go cuts deep. But, boy, there is glamour

The author has created another heroine we can't quite work out whether we like, but we're rooting for her anyway because she's fabulous

Another delectable slice of escapism drama

Pacy, propulsive and utterly immersive, you're going to want to read this

Taylor has done it again . . . a brilliant and dynamic book about what it means to be an ambitious woman- for better or for worse

With a wonderfully complex character, a world you can't help being seduced by, and an important message about it never being too late, TJR has served up another ace

Frank, funny and emotional

A fascinatingly realistic look into the world of elite sports where driven and flawed characters' private lives are just as intriguing and controversial as they are on the court

This is a well-researched, exciting and genuinely tender book