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

God is the perfect poet.

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