How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

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

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

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

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

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

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