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

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

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

"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma

She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet

What we cannot speak about we must

'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian

Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky