"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.

"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney

"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort

I understood that my words could be used as a weapon. James Matthews

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe