on Away from the City:

“These are short accessible poems accompanied by black and white photographs. The poet’s eyes watch people and give us terse notes on their lives, taking us right inside the city through its inhabitants. But there are layers on meanings in the carefully chosen words…The sequences are full of small subtle links, like graphic matches transformed to words.” — Angela Topping, Stride Magazine

“This elegant pamphlet announces the arrival of a poet with a fine ear, a sharp eye and a generous heart.” — Andrew Philip

“Like all good poems they refuse to see the everyday as mundane but make it something other.” — Andrea Porter

review of Away from the City exhibition, March 2010:

“The subtlety of Lee Smith’s work lies in the fact that the photographs are like memories we forget, while the poems are memories we should recall” — Michael Bayley