Some of [the poems in Finding Gold] are bulked out with dull rhythms and language. He doesn't take short cuts enough, and is guilty of epithets ('brazen Africa', 'aching silences', etc.) that really needed a rethink. This said, he emerges as a very likeable new voice, fresh, elegiac, organized…. If he is sentimental sometimes, a little too eloquent perhaps, such defects are invariably smartened-up by neat observation and by touches of honesty that radiate thankfully in the rhetorical flow…. Norris can write, and though sometimes in danger of turning out the usual nature-notes, he communicates a real sense of life endured, of the flux tamed.

John Fuller, "Poetry: 'Finding Gold'," in London Magazine (© London Magazine 1967), Vol. 7, No. 3, July, 1967, p. 88.