‘Haskell’s poetry, so often set in familiar environments and concerned with the day today ‘realities’ of life, is in fact … a consideration of what the poetic voice means in the “real world”.’ John Kinsella, Southerly

‘Issues of gender and the domestic, and movement through (or against) perceived masculine and feminine spaces are beautifully and sensitively observed and managed – an uncommon thing in male Australian verse.’ John Kinsella, Southerly

‘Haskell’s poems appear in many forms. Rather than nurturing a single way of speaking, Haskell adopts various shapes and tones and allows each poem its own evolution … Incidental rhymes and semi-formal sound patterns are offered with considerable subtlety and persuasion.’

Kristen Lang

‘Haskell’s shaping of language is highly skilful … the language is heightened just that notch at the appropriate moment … for the poetry to singe the reader’s senses, jolt the mind or open a new window of perception on to the world.’ Rod Moran

Haskell’s poetry ‘demonstrates how human the art of poetry can be; how it can deal with the particulars and universals of our emotions an_d remin_d us o_f our commona_lities’.

Geoff Page

‘Mundane and ethereal, ordinary and extraordinary merge into images that stir us to a new consciousness of life lived today … registering a continuity and a modernity, evoking in us a paradoxical sensation and perception of the evanescence and the solidity.’ Subas Chandra Saha