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Written from a place of heightened intelligence…
a palpable sense of everything being crafted so carefully and intentionally, with such tight control.
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I felt like I was being swept up in an age-old fable…
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Really powerful, evocative imagery.
Rose Cummins, writer
Wonderfully detailed.
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Very McPhee-ish, …quite Borgesian (as in his celebrated short ‘story’ On Exactitude in Science, and it had that quality of manic precision that you get in Will Self or Italo Calvino.
Richard Hamblyn, Senior lecturer,
Birkbeck College, University of London
How fabulous. Clever, dizzying details and a really good ending.
Diane McTaggart, writer
The humour is great – it’s an achievement. You are able to highlight the absurdity without diminishing the seriousness of the ecological concerns.
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This is very funny and there’s a nice touch: the medical imagery seems to echo and parody William Empson’s Missing Dates.
Matt Martin, Associate Lecturer,
Birkbeck College, University of London
I shall be surprised if you don’t have a very publishable book ready soon. Perhaps with the theme of man’s injustice to man. Or more generally the dark side. In which, perhaps, the beauty can blaze through.
Joe Winter, poet, literary critic and translator
The characters are so strong – and the dialogue, story and characters tie together brilliantly.
Sharon John, writer
Just so beautiful.
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I love the humour and the vast array of metaphors.
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I absolutely loved this – the concept, the writing, the language, the connection between a chaotic mind and a hoarder’s house.
Ava Wollnick-Halliday, writer, poet and performer.
Winner of the Michael Donaghy Poetry Prize
So much wordplay fun. Like a Blackadder joke on steroids. Had me spiralling into giggling fits.
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This is how to do an interview! Lovely insights…the steering was so gently controlled…a benchmark for how to do it.
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A beautiful and expressively-worded manifesto for us all. Thank you for the sentiment.
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This mind of wild, sprawling influences and spider-web interconnected reams of information and ideas, is a thing of wonder. It’s filled with endless, infinite possibilities for story and art.
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This is pitch perfect! Informative, punchy with brilliantly restrained righteous anger running through the whole piece.
Daniel Crute, writer and performer
Your work makes me think of New York, it has a journalistic literary review style. I also sensed your frustration, as though there is an under-representation that is not discussed. It’s as though you are about to burst but are cautious as to where this could lead. Art may have lost some truth and freedom along the path of righteousness. Meaty and mighty. I will be watching your progress.
Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London
Humanity. If I had to use one word for this poem, it is humanity. Showing the contrast with society’s often lack of humanity. It is a true art to be able to say so much with short lines.
Annette Willis, writer
The language used was very direct, almost structured in a very ‘matter of fact’ way, there was no dressing up the harsh brutality that is human trafficking.
Abigail Wells, writer
Brilliant and beautiful.
Ilana Sabban, writer and poet
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