"...a collection by a regular alphabet of Canadian literary worthies. A couple of things are clear from reading through these pieces: bill bissett is very well loved, and also very well admired for his work as a poet, publisher, painter, and activist."
- Bill Richardson, CBC Radio
"...an exciting, disarming, kinetic and scintillating anthology honouring legendary Canadian poet and artist, blewointment Press editor, poetry trickster and boddhisattva bill bissett. These sundry works, tributes, stories and visuals reflect and bounce off one another in an Indra's Net of wit and insight, creating a vibrating portrait. It's a wild love affair, a sacred conversation, an event, a welcome cultural intervention, the consummate festschrift that shines though this truly radiant danse uv being. Kudos to the community for this sweet and rare pleasure of a book."
- Anne Waldman, Co-founder of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
"Expect to meet old friends as well as your own tears, sighs, giggles and inspired nostalgia. The anecdotes about bissett are remarkable. If one didn't know these poems are describing someone who is a poet/friend, one would assume their subject is a guru, shaman, spiritual teacher, therapist, prophet or healer. The descriptive words are the elevated praise reserved for the likes of a Mandela, Ghandi, Thomas Merton and John Lennon."
- BC Bookworld reviewed by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
"radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett doesn't tell you where bill bissett was born or who inspired his poetry. (Well, it does, but inadvertently.) It does, however, give you your travelling papers for the magical bissett mystery tour, a synapses-wide-open visit to the land of possibilities. Your guides on this raging trip are many of Canada's best-known poets, writing with creativity and play in the style/shadow of this most excellent man of letters... Invention, inveteracy, inanity, insanity, individuality-�bissett asks for nothing more than a second thought, a second look. And a third. Read this with an open heart and you will perhaps come to ask for the same. Which is a most excellently raging way to close the chapter on summer."
- The Georgia Straight reviewed by John Burns
"radiant danse uv being is way fun. It's a joyful collection, fuelled by bissett's indomitable spirit of lunatic creativity...."
- Monday Magazine reviewed by Alisa Gordaneer
"bissett's fans will enjoy the offbeat stories and tributes."
- Winnipeg Free Press reviewed by Alison Calder
"Why wait until those we admire die before we honour them? How much better to celebrate their achievements and our love while they are still around! radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett does just that. It is a many-splendoured homage, a love-in, panegyric, ode, encomium, a song of thanks and a reprise of the life and work of a figure who has been prominent in our literary and visual arts landscape for much of the last half-century. Jeff Pew & Stephen Roxborough have collected old and new work from an extraordinary array of Canada's best -- including some less well known -- poets and artists."
- The Fiddlehead reviewed by Ruth Roach Pierson