“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’

“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.

Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard. -- Toni Stuart

Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

'Out of this zany dark and ice we will carry/longing and the sun in our eyes forever.' Christine De Luca, Light Show at the Botanics

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel

She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi