Her Book

'Shapcott is gifted and original, and it is in work such as hers that the future health of poetry needs to be sought.'

'There is about Shapcott's poetry a passionate reticence. Once in disguise, though, pressed into other skins and other perspectives, she howls and sings.'

'Jo Shapcott's is a voice that reaches out and grabs. In all her work, she transforms the extraordinary into the immediately plausible . . . Whatever her province, her concern remains for the chaotically unaccountable in humanity.'

'Poems which have a way of turning physics into the physical, the subatomic field of matter into one vast erogenous zone.'