'David Annwn's work drills deep into strata of myth and history. exposing devices which resonate in new contexts. Faithful to the living moment, his poems dip, hover and dart through soundscapes rich with suggestion, rhythmically charged and etymologically playful. Formally adventurous and inviting disjunction, these texts retain a lyric coherence that powerfully renders layers of experience. The mode veers from jazzy to mystical, evoking in the reader both disturbance and content. Bela Fawr's Cabaret has this recognisable stamp: music and legend 'Knocked Abaht a Bit', mischievous humour yielding subtle insight.'
    —Gavin Selerie

`Annwn's turbulent//boundaries forces the limits of boundaries by making them jostle and ultimately confront each other ... bacchanalian feast of pagan rite meets media hype ... ancient meets modern and languages of nations meet each other head-on with delicious abandon and undiluted energy.'
    —Geraldine Monk

Blake's Kayak: 'This "descriptive catalogue of pictures, poetical and historical inventions" maximizes Blake and Blake, simultaneously emphasising similarities yet focusing on strategic particulars, hence the "Rob Roy canoe" informs us that "Blake wasn't a swimmer" though for both writer and reader "the effect is that of looking through water / down into wondrous depths". Annwn's project is one of temporal range and linguistic complexity, informed by an incisive historical lens, uniquely evoking a provocative mapping beyond any "geographic".'
    —Karen Mac Cormack