A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley

Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'

Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. - Gwendolyn Brooks