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

Poetry is our human love of metaphor. We see one thing and think something else - 'Travels in Peru', Geoffrey Lehmann

A thousand martyrs I have made, all sacrificed to my desire. - Aphra Behn 'A Thousand Martyrs'

All things within this fading world hath end. ('Before the Birth of One of Her Children')

God is the perfect poet.

A large, ironic Whitman of the industrial heartland - Edward Hirsch

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage

...in a good poem the poet disappears. That's what the struggle with language is all about. The point is that in the finished poem you don't lay yourself bare. You create a strongbox of words. - Vicki Feaver