‘Kim Addonizio’s poetry gives me physical energy, particularly ‘For Desire’ and “What Do Women Want?”' – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, New York Times
America’s Kim Addonizio has been called ‘one of the nation’s most provocative and edgy poets’. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems explore life’s dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, joy and suffering, exposing raw emotions often only visible when truly confronting ourselves – jealousy, self-pity, fear, lust. 
‘I fell in love with her work. Her Bloodaxe selected and new poems Wild Nights was a collection which absolutely shaped me.’ – Rachel Long, speaking about Kim Addonizio on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please
‘Kim Addonizio’s imagination is like a runaway train under perfect control. Nuanced, shaded and unshaded, her poems are bold, brave, respectful of the darkness, perfectly pitched, and virtually every one reverberates with a kind of wild tenderness.’ – Thomas Lux
‘With a noir gusto, Addonizio’s passionate monologues draw you into the boudoir of narrative and keep you there until she’s finished. Her sleekly told story-meditations are both terribly familiar and wonderfully intense.’ – Tony Hoagland
‘Reading a poem by Kim Addonizio is like driving down a deserted road, late at night, and hearing a song on the radio so good you have to pull over. Indeed, this poet is tuned into all the joy and suffering for miles around…She is a poet of brave sensuality and intimacy, for whom the heart is an “initial-scarred tabletop”.’ – Martín Espada
‘The collection, which I recently re-read, is alive with edgy diction, brazenness and erotic humour. Poems startle with their intimacy, while sensual imagery underscores emotions. Female characters are determined to throw off inhibitions, though perhaps only in their imaginations.’ – Victor Tapner, Broken Sleep Books (Books of the Year 2023)