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

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage

Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')