"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better world -- Alasdair Gray via Dennis Lee

F. T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation. -- John Ashbery

Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness - Edwin Morgan

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

A frail, dead, new-born lamb, ghostly and pitiful and white a blot upon the night, the moon's dropped child! - Charlotte Mew, 'Fame'

'Inventive, academically aware, fearless and hugely enjoyable' -Nick Laird

Poems of serious play, relentlessly experimental but grounded in quotidian specifics, characterized by a consummate strangeness and an oddball ferocity ? David Wojahn

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

Gissa smile Sun, giss yr best / good mawnin' one, fresh 'n cool like - 'Sun O (2)', Hone Tuwhare