Tempest has forged her own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world. The Independent

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

I have tried to be faithful to delight... - Ruth Pitter

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. - W. H. Auden

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems. - Larkin to his publisher

Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods. - Ted Hughes

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

And here is love / like a tinsmith's scoop / sunk past its gleam / in the meal-bin - 'Mossbawn Sunlight', Seamus Heaney

What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen

All poems are rash acts. - Allen Curnow