Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some a modern-day William Blake The Guardian described Terror his first book as 'visionary' & 'exciting' the New Statesman as 'remarkable' & all combined to praise its brave & lucid intensity Black Sun is a sequel of poise & clarity that is if anything more open & accessible than its predecessor Beginning where Terror left off it pursues that book's fascination with history & with theology with the physical body & the body of the State with preservation & redemption Black Sun confronts the dark dreams & hidden powers of this world & through the poet's attentive watching & wondering offers its readers a way 'to know
- & still to resist a last despair''A lucid & spontaneous lyricism how unlike most of his contemporaries Martinez de las Rivas seems to be' New Statesman