His writing has been published in a range of journals and magazines, and he has also released several collections of poetry. Reviewers are in agreement about the ‘meditative’, ‘probing’ nature of his thought, and the flexibility of his voice. Lazy Wind Poems (2003), his seventh collection, is referred to in the Listener Best Books of 2003: ‘Christchurch poet Graham Lindsay confirms that he is a poet of exceptional skill. He's able to depict beauty, and evoke the transcendent with a reflex smoothness'.