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Thank you to everyone who's taken the time to send their kind words, wonderful thoughts and comments.

"He writes like a man obsessed... If Waugh were still alive, he would fall on Dennis’s verse with a glad cry of recognition and approval."
"The unpredictable Felix Dennis, long known for publishing other things, now bursts forth as a 21st century Kipling. In the poor old mallarme'd and ezrapounded world of contemporary poetry, no poet is taken seriously if he rollicks and rolls with rhyme, meter, and melody and can be understood in fewer than four read-throughs. But the Kipling of Barrack-Room Ballads and The Recessional could not be denied, at long last, despite decades of fashionable vituperation. Kipling II, I predict, will be just as much trouble — which he enjoys making on stage as well as on page."
"I enjoy his poetry immensely..."
"Shakespeare beware. Dennis the Menace is trying to bring poetry back to the masses."
"A Glass Half Full is funny, poignant and a breath of fresh air. I loved the whole thing."
"At least one of these poems will be instantly anthologised."
"...an engaging monster, filled with contradictions and reeking of sulphur."
"I enjoyed A Glass Half Full more than I can possibly say, Brilliant!"
"A Glass Half Full blew me away. Dennis is a crouching tiger about to wreak mayhem amongst the bleating lambs of English poetry."
"Dennis confronts issues ranging from the holocaust to Elvis with equal poetic and emotional skill. The verse sweeps from darkly poignant to hilariously funny."
"A knockout! Multi-layered, full of wisdom, compassion, humour and worldly insight."
"Serious, witty, thought provoking and moving. You may even cry! I loved it."
"This is the way poetry should be. The sort of book that can make poetry popular again."
"I don't think I have ever known such a sense of celebration and occasion in all of the years of our poetry programme... You feel he lived it so richly, so dangerously, to be ‘so wise for our delight’."
"...the ‘Did I Mention the Free Wine?’ tour gets 11 out of 10 for flamboyance."
"He is almost a force of nature"
"I don’t know which is better, hearing [him] read them aloud or reading the book itself."
"The audience was simply blown away."
"A Glass Half Full is the poetry of real life… the power to raise a smile in one who never laughs; to wring tears from another who hasn’t wept since kindergarten; and to bring a measure of consolation to the inconsolable."
"An unforgettable evening. To hear him perform [with the Royal Shakespeare Company] was an entertaining and awe-inspiring privilege."
"...a mixture of laddish good humour and puppyish impatience… avuncular with a hint of malice..."
"A complex and controversial performance… Many people were deeply moved by the humanity of his verse and by the range of his experience [in these] haunting poems."
"Exhilarating… great performance art."
"He is far prouder of being a best-selling poet than his starring role in the Rich List."
"Dennis is on a crusade to challenge the obscurity of modern verse."
"Those of you who missed Felix Dennis at his UK-wide tour appearances should weep. By the fourth poem he had the audience drinking out of his hand."
"Picture his voice as a mixture of Carl Sandburg and Winston Churchill."
"You can easily picture him with a shank of lamb in one hand and a goblet of mead in the other. [He] succeeds because he takes a shameless, impish delight in all forms of human desire."
"One can recreate the visual image so clearly — hearing, sense of touch, sense of smell — they are so evocative in his poetry. It’s enthralling, really."
"He’s a joy to have as a British person."
"A fantastic collection! Rich, sumptuous and beautifully threaded."
"A Glass Half Full by Felix Dennis is a wonderful read. His poems have depth and freshness of voice. He writes for himself and I want to listen. His thoughts come alive without fear and without a care in the world for what anyone thinks. He writes of love, sex, wine and life with an energy I haven't seen in many years. I read his poems with the same excitement that I read Richard Brautigan in college many years ago."

 

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