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

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

For it to exist in the real world, my work has to be bigger than myself.

Some of the most turbulent moments in life through a sharp, clear lens. Maura Dooley

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves. Lorna Goodison