[Morgan's semi-concrete] poems must be taken in their entirety or not at all. They will not be fragmented (which is, I take it, the justification for their existence). They are among the best things in his varied book, The Second Life. There are more conventional poems, equally intelligent, but they seem embarrassed by the nakedness of the emotions expressed, which are too often dour and dreary. A lot of the poems are about looking back and feeling miserable….

The Second Life is worth reading, though. It is a book without consistency, but the successes are real and memorable, in the anti-semantic manner. There are some excellent SF poems—like the one about primitive people sensing the presence among them of invisible time-travellers. (p. 414)

Martin Dodsworth, "Modified Smiles," in The Listener, Vol. LXXIX, No. 2035, March 28, 1968, pp. 413-15.∗