' Having known Dilly since her undergraduate days at Chichester, it soon became clear that she was highly talented . . . I was a lecturer in English and she was using the essay form with an articulacy, which would have been impressive had she been a final year English specialist.

At the time she was studying Related Arts, specialising in Fine Art. For her final year Related Arts study, she wrote a novella on the life and art of J.M.W. Turner. . . . I remember it as a work of rare subtlety and imagination and as the leader of the MA in Creative Writing, I was dismayed when Dilly decided to take an MA in the History of Art at the University of Southampton.

So it is with some satisfaction that, after all these years, words still matter to her and, despite becoming a prize-winning artist in Menorca, Spain, Dilly has produced Tell it like a Stranger, her first book of poems. Would that I could have written any of these. She is very talented. . . .'

extract from John Saunder's introduction

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