“Distracting rays were shining round my door / And so I stood”

"Effortlessly switching from spoken-word poetry and folk lyrics accompanied by a gentle finger-picked guitar style, her pieces evoke the beauty and melancholy of the natural world and our place within it." - Ewan Carr, Norfolk Wildlife Trust

A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Lucid observations, smart conceits and insight into the contemporary world as a fragmented, self-constructed thing. - The Independent

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. - The Poetry Review

Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - Robert Burns 'Song: ae fond kiss and then we sever'

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'