'Here is a magnificent poem of poems: a surging, truth-bound voyage that offers no easy purpose, acceptance, or ending.' - David Morley on the pamphlet of Notes on Water, in The Poetry Review (Autumn 2022)

'Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart... She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for' - Jo Shapcott

'Dalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm' - Siân Hughes, TES

'She seeks out the fractured minds and lives that live in darkness and reconstructs them with tenderness and skill' - Tracey Herd, Stand

'In contemplative ebb, Dalton's formal composure breaks as surely as the Matthew Arnold of 'Dover Beach'; her words fragment, unequal to the task of transfiguring bereavement. Towards the end of this, by turns harrowing, by turns cathartic, long poem, the one half of 'Notes on Water' that deals with the loss of her partner is subsumed beneath the deluge of water whose terrible effects were felt in real time in the Calder Valley floods. And if resolution cannot be proffered, a window is opened on the nature of mental suffering and the dissolution of self in the catacombs of grief.' - Steve Whitaker, Yorkshire Times, on Fantastic Voyage