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

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

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare

With walking sick, with curtseys lame, and frighted by the scolding dame, poor Mira once again is seen within the bounds of Goslin-Green. - Mary Leapor 'The Visit'

That in humour the lyrical may flourish.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'

Resonant and lyrical, linguistically precise and emotionally evasive, often at the same time - The Guardian

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

Poetry is a form of embodiment - Christian Campbell

'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight' Christopher Marlowe, 'Hero and Leander'

Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'

The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.