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

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

He stands among the indispensable poets of modern and contemporary Scotland - Douglas Dunn

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape.? William Shakespeare