“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