Peacocke's language is shriven, precise and terribly open to the dead, to absence. -- David Morley

He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

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

The last English modernist ? Guardian

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

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

'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

Here is a poet with a commanding style; her voice is entirely her own, both rich and laconic - Penelope Shuttle

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London