'Parts of Us is an accessible work by an authoritative poet and represents an urban Australian landscape readers will have little difficulty relating to.' Bookseller Publisher
'Its centrepiece is a sequence called Adelaide Lunch Sonnets … They are almost without exception superb: relaxed, chatty, full of the kind of graceful wisdom one would expect from a symposium. Most impressively, they display a formal mastery that should place Shapcott among the cream of formal Australian poets. … [a book] of graceful mastery.' Weekend Australian
'Parts of Us is witty, clever and thought-provoking. It is also deeply moving, a powerful testament to a life and an art. … a powerful anthology.' Sydney Morning Herald
'Shapcott has an eye on both pleasure and decay in the body and the world around him.' West Australian