“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.

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

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

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

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

Bergin's perceptions are sharp, her senses of history, community, and relationships deep and acute, and her technical control over language and form is assured and graceful - Tower Poetry