“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

A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.

Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. . . surprising and moving. . . - EDMUND DE WAAL

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

The balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

'True poetry, sensationally assembled.' Peter Porter

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

I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips