"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.

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

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

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

Valerie Gillies writes like the wind and jinks like a hare in the fields of language - The Scotsman

Once this poem is finished, you may find me/both taking and giving breath, wherever I can.' Tom Pow,' 'The Bar at the Well of Love'

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

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

Bergin's perceptions are sharp, her senses of history, community, and relationships deep and acute, and her technical control over language and form is assured and graceful - Tower Poetry

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.