‘You don’t recognise what’s new until you trip over it. So many poems are busily trying to sound like whatever trend is just about to be over, but these poems seem to come out of nowhere. Strange they are, in the ways they use metaphor, in the ways they remake the world; but most of what they are is true, brave and touching. I didn’t see them coming.’
Mark Waldron
‘Throughout this gorgeous debut collection, Dide’s unique ability to create images that startle, shock and surprise enthrals – they will make you look at the world afresh. She says it best herself: “any minute of any hour, you make me put eyes in my eyes”.’
Rishi Dastidar