The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets - The Poet's Press

THINGS SAID ABOUT BRETT RUTHERFORD’S POETRY...
Rutherford is first and foremost a storyteller. He writes poetry for an audience, one
that he feels would come back to poetry if only there were poetry to come back to.
—Radio Void
Fantastic, rebellious poetry! — FactSheet 5
Some of the most powerful poetry I’ve ever read. —Frank Belknap Long
Real poetry! Wonderful! — Ray Bradbury
The Rutherford poetry is a delight. I am in complete agreement with his comments
on the state of poetry in America today, and pleased that he has chosen to go against
the current. His work is his most eloquent argument. —Robert Bloch, author of
Psycho and Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.
Equal parts Poe, Shelley, Lovecraft and Bradbury … composed with a firm sense of
poetics and orchestrated with a respect for poetic tradition.…Though written in
free verse, they scan with a rhythmic coherence, a dividend of precise word choices
and the embedding of alliterative phrases in the line. —Stefan Dziemianowicz,
Crypt of Cthulhu
This prolific poet who celebrates H.P . Lovecraft and Poe has reached an assurance
of craft and in mood… an extraordinary poet, a neo-romantic perhaps, but also Ovid
blended with Virgil.—Home Planet News
The High Priest of Providence’s ghoulie underground… — The Nice Paper
Shudders aplenty here, poetically nuanced…ranges across the supernatural
spectrum with the fervor of Poe and the aloofness of Lovecraft. —Paul DiFilippo,
Asimov’s SF Magazine
Be afraid. Be very afraid … Like Lovecraft, Rutherford integrates terrestrial terrors
with a more sublime, or cosmic, dread. — Justin Wolff, The Providence Phoenix.
(About Poems from Providence): Like Wordsworth’s Prelude, this great book might
avail us of endless hours of poring at leisure, enriching us, and, yes, ennobling us….
Rutherford can be appallingly tender and appallingly sorrowful…he can be funny,
very. He can be inspired by joy. He can be profound. This is marvelous heady rich
stuff… —Dusty Dog Reviews
A special validity and integrity…Rutherford writes about nature in ways in which
comparatively few poets of today do — and clearly from first-hand experience and
observation. —John Burnett Payne, Poets Fortnightly