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

A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

I was a long bodice partly sewn to a skirt, a hem picking / up everything

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

'Every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning.' Emily Berry