'Gerald
Dawe speaks with a voice which is confidently individual at times
and at times hesitant and suggestive with the doubtful tones of
one who questions the assumptions upon which he and his culture
rest.'
— Jonathan Allison, North
As
Terence Brown writes of the poems in Sunday School, 'Gerald
Dawe engages a narrow world in this intent collection, making
of his northern past a myth of origins and survival. A
persistent moral stringency quickens into vision: of hard-won
individualism, "the passion that cries out of the ordinary"'
