Paul Mitchell’s new book has a cleanness of line and a generosity of vision. When reading through Standard Variation Neruda’s expression ‘fully empowered’ comes to mind.
— Kevin Hart
Standard Variation is the best of Paul Mitchell. His poems are threaded with the spiritual, the ethereal and the very guts of life. As always he is considered, precise and completely compelling.”
— alicia sometimes
“Mitchell is by turns colloquial and mystical and often both . . . Mitchell’s work is generous and never lets his poet-speaker off too lightly – not for him the easy ironies of poet as observer.”