"These are poems of texture, assonance and colour, as many-layered as the names of the places they investigate: Cloughton Wyke, South Batts, Lingrow Knock. John Wedgwood Clarke finds the philosophical scope of the regional, the human interest lurking among minerals, and a universe of minute new perspectives revealed by the microscope of the poet’s close reading of his favourite text – his surrounding landscape."
— Carol Rumens

"Ghost Pot’s rich, unhindered and limpid language, with its floods of light and complex darkness, creates an exhilarating sweep of elemental experience."
— Penelope Shuttle

"There’s a rare delicacy in John Wedgwood Clarke’s poems, working as they do at edges and borders, but there’s an energy too, in his formal skill and the clear-rinsed quality of his writing."
— Michael Symmons Roberts

"...the findings of an intently observing eye, expressed through an exceptional lyrical technique. Whether the subject is sea-life, shoreline or history, these beautifully crafted poems tease out the essential meaning in things and places. Ghost Pot is a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading."
— Bernard O'Donoghue

"Ghost Pot is a complex and delightful ecosystem of a book. The poems, for all their diversity, coexist in a balance at once dangerous and beguiling. There's a richness of language that suggests we're in the hands not only of a masterful poet but of an erudite marine biologist. Many of Ghost Pot's poems are specifically located on and off the coast of Yorkshire; all of them find a true home in the human heart."
— Antony Dunn