Maria Lainas is a very distinctive poet. With her new poems she makes her voice more acute and manages to create a deeply personal space, over which broad, open surfaces hold sway, lit by well hidden sources of light. The emotive use of language, to bring Richards’ well known definition of poetry to mind, in this instance passes through an advanced stage of refinement and abstraction, with highly sensitive antennae to both words and senses […]
I think we should make no qualms about saying this: Rosy Fear is one of Maria Lainas’ finest moments: She is determined, prolific, and pays not even lip service to convention; most importantly she is highly lucid and familiar.’