'pizzazz, wit and - astonishing at his age - both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity' -- Fiona Sampson

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

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

if the body is a great creation why wait / indoors with it?

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

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

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

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

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare