"What holds the writing in this book together is the honesty with which its contributors face up to debilitating anxieties, loss, hurtful memories, lives gone wrong. What shines through is something very positive, a brave questing after truth and hope"
Matt Simpson

"I cannot think there can have been many better first collections than this... one imbued with so strong a sense of respect for its own heroines and heroes. Wright knows where he lives and knows his own people. His ego is regularly lowered to let in the truth of both. He is accountable to both. And there lies his strength: humility. It is a quality rare in current poetry and Glyn Wright has it in abundance."
Tim Liardet: POETRY WALES.

"A brand new voice. Fresh, accessible, humane, witty... elegaic and lyrical."
Liz Lochhead, PBS BULLETIN

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 1998 and for the 1998 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival's First Collection Prize.

"A fine and moving book, a walk along the cliff edge... not comfortable but somehow comforting in the end."
ADRIAN MITCHELL

"Lyrical poems of intense experience, severance, love and loss. Jean Sprackland writes with a tingling emotional honesty... an extremely assured first collection."
DERYN REES-JONES

"It's impossible to disassociate Peter Street's poetry from the backcloth of his disability since he only began writing after his accident. But disability... merely drives him onward to greater achievement. Street's writing reveals a positive language."
JUDY MEEWEZEN

"Peter Street's poetic perspectives are entirely refreshing: what they demonstrate is that home bred gumption and a curious yet innocent eye can produce genuine poetry."
MATT SIMPSON

"...admired it, enjoyed it, enormously...one of the best poets in the country." - Jimmy McGovern.

"...really knows how to make words tell" - Ramraid.