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I have never read a poet where there was such a sense that the material was so unruly it might overwhelm its creator. It is this that makes Carson exciting... She writes with spendthrift ease.

Kate Kellaway, Observer

To engage so originally and compellingly with a story first told more than 3,000 years ago, is astonishing: her ambition is one thing, the fact that it is so completely achieved is, frankly, something else… Carson is, simply, one of the very best.

Sarah Crown, Guardian

[Carson’s] work over the last three decades has the flux of tidal waters. Words deceptively simple become in context an exhilarating tsunami of images with a shift in typographical structure.

Hayden Murphy, Herald

‘A true poet, in the sense that she makes the unfamiliar seem real, and the real seem fabulous.’

Richard Eyre, Start the Week

The narrative poem plays delightfully with form, at times approaching stream of consciousness in the vivid interplay of memory and dialogue.

Financial Times

Some of the most arresting poetry I've read this year... Complex and beautiful.

Alex MacDonald, Quietus

Strange, affecting and very exciting. I guarantee it will blow your mind.

Nick Harkaway, Female First

I think she's maybe the greatest living writer.

Erza Furman, Line of Best Fit