Articles
Poetry Book of the Year 2012 3:AM Awards | Authors’ Books of the Year 2012 The Scotsman | Ten Poetry Books w/ Ivan Smagghe Discipline in Disorder | Top Books of 2012 Joe England | Cabinet of Curiosities 3:AM Magazine | Leeds’ Best Blogs The Leeds Guide | Offbeat Generation Ike Writes | Tell It Like It Is Dazed and Confused | WWW Killed The ISBN Verbal Arts Magazine | Literature for The Myspace Generation The Guardian | The Rise and Rise of The Brutalists The Guardian | Whatever it is, I’m Against It Spanish Daily ABC | Brit Lit of The Post Punk Generation Slates Magazine
Interviews
Not the Oxford Literary Festival Cherwell Newspaper | w/ Dan Holloway Eight Cuts Gallery | w/ Michael Stewart Headspam’s Posterous | National Poetry Day BBC News | The Writer Who Is Original Is Always Scandalous Bookmunch | w/ Darran Anderson ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’ 3:AM Magazine
Reviews
Dark Corners of the Land Metazen & Sabotage & Bookstorey | Cigarettes in Bed Sabotage | Social Disease 3:AM Magazine | Nowhere Fast Caught In The Crossfire | Nowhere Fast Shortlist
Quotes
‘Brave new writing, touched with tenderness and raw emotional depth’ – The Guardian
‘Stripe’s poems are grounded in the blood of real life, in rural realities and the small Yorkshire town where she grew up. Her best work yet.’ – The Scotsman
‘A remarkable, beautiful, heartbreaking, destructive, magnetic tapestry, which serves as a perfect metaphor for the unravelable relationship between humanity and nature.’ – Sabotage Reviews
‘This is not a cosy and comforting slice of rural life; instead you will find candidly raw and disquieting memories that make this collection both haunting and deeply moving.’ – Bookstorey
‘The Hilary Mantel of Underground Poetry’ – Metazen
‘Truly a very exciting poet: one seldom encounters the combination of passion, honesty, skill, erudition, and intelligence in the same person so early in her career’ – Gerald Locklin, poet & Professor Emeritus at CSULB
‘One of the finest young femme writers I’ve read in England–or America–writes with witty spunk savvy and a wise, world-aware brilliance that promises great literary endurance.’ – Joan Jobe Smith, poet & founding editor of Pearl Magazine and Bukowski Review
‘Sacred Heart – the sort of poem that will be remembered in a hundred years’ – Bookmunch
