“These poems have a haunting, stately quality: they truly suggest the ‘mystery/of everything’ as manifested in the act of love.”
–Globe and Mail
“Dewdney has undergone a transformation; his poetry has taken on greater humanity and been touched by love, while still in touch with the gods.”
–Quill & Quire
“[His] poems have a painful, visceral quality to them that rasps against the cerebral and genteel aspects of their presentation. They are about the redemption of human misery magnified to the highest power.”
–Eye Magazine
“[He has] fashioned a body of work that is original, challenging, witty, stylistically versatile, and remarkably cohesive.”
–Books in Canada