"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'

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

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

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