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

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips

His poems are made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive. - The American Poetry Review

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood

The glittering dance of brilliants must be strung / On that dark thread of sadness which is time - 'Sunt Lacrimae Rerum', Vernon Scannell