OCTAVIO PAZ
A real breakthrough - towards where? A perilous voyage across the unexpected. I fdind the poem very well structured, each part linked with the whole but with a life of its own - and the whole animated and moving ... I'm not a prophet, but I believe you have written a great poem.
CHARLES TOMLINSON
These are themes very clsoe to my own interests and it was a welcome surprise to find Avebury, where I have walked among the stones so often . . . placed back meaningfully on the spiritual map.
BARTON R. FRIEDMAN in The Minnesota Review
The poem has the quality of day dream; its setting functions as a metaphor of mind ... Imagination transforms the scene, blending diverse cultures into each other, and into the encompassing psyche of the poet ... Womb, tomb and temple; birth, death and eterinity conflate in the human mind. This compression, on which the strength of Avebury largely depends, owes as much to syntax as to imagery.
FREDERICK GRUBB in Tribune
In Avebury, he proves that prehistory and anthropology may inspire a (perhaps disjunctive) aesthetic order. He creates, bravely, poetry from mystery.
TLS
The central movement of the poem is a trance, in which a journey into an interior is also a journey back into childhood, into reunion with brother and sister, into the innocence before puberty, which is also the innocence of early man.