“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

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

Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard. -- Toni Stuart

'Must this be a woman's cross? This dissonance between what 'seems' and what 'is?' - Jane McKie, 'Change, Continuous Change'

These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

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

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu

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

A seamless welding of raw experience and self-observation, of music and thought - Ken Bariss

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'