“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

I understood that my words could be used as a weapon. James Matthews

Yaa de Villiers' silence-smashing poems (in this manner reminiscent of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife) are sensitive, unafraid to be erotic, sometimes tragic, and always irreverent - Tolu Ogunlesi, Wasafiri magazine

His keen observation invokes an expanded cognition and a braver engagement with one's personhood. -- Liesl Jobson