“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

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

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

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

Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel

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

She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet