“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”

“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

"The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could reasonably have expected to go." - Seamus Heaney

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Never stop looking at the world. Or wondering at it. You will never run out of words.

a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride