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

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

Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard. -- Toni Stuart

What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross / What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee / What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage -- Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI

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

'Out of this zany dark and ice we will carry/longing and the sun in our eyes forever.' Christine De Luca, Light Show at the Botanics

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times

Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel

Here is a poet with a commanding style; her voice is entirely her own, both rich and laconic - Penelope Shuttle

There are strange Hells within the minds War made. - Ivor Gurney, 'Strange Hells'