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

I take what the world throws at me, and spin, twist, skim, fly, flip, throw it back - Selima Hill

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy

Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times

A jet-age Tennyson - London Review of Books