He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

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

'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

'Every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning.' Emily Berry

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma