Praise for Pathways into the Mountains
"Belford is a delight: he has his language under control and such poems as "Carrier Indians," "Stove," and "Omega" read with the kind of inevitabililty of image and rhythm that makes other poets grit their teeth with envy..."
-Margaret Atwood
"Belford's poetry offers a haunting vision of the north. This is as it should be, Belford's Fireweed remains one of the best collections of poetry to come out of the central and northern interior."
-Charles Lillard, Times-Colonist
"All the major traits of Belford's poetry, coolness, understatement, wry precision, a hesitancy to use too 'poetic' a language...Belford is so aware of distance and the need to cross it, a very Canadian concern."
-Douglas Barbour, Canadian Literature