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

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

And die of nothing but a rage to live

Syntactically complex, discursive, lyrically rich, yet threaded through with a demotic swagger - Gerard Woodward

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

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

God is the perfect poet.

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

Now if the harvest is over / And the world cold / Give me the bonus of laughter / As I lose hold. - 'A Nip in the Air', John Betjeman

Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')

A voice as welcome as Lear's fool... Humour that can stick deep and stay funny. - Ted Hughes