Reviews of CUTS.
Published by HappenStance (2015). Available here.
“Poetry of a high order from a fully developed poet, one who knows how to let voices play across the pages, casting long shadows”.
— Under the Radar
“These poems use language beautifully and sparingly. From Stockport Market on a Saturday morning to the heartbreaking story of a young mother strangling her daughter, these poems truly affect the reader long after they have finished reading”.
— Poetry Book Society Bulletin 246 (Autumn 2015)
“Rosie Miles … can capture both contemporary and historical details with confidence, while also leaving a timeless feel to a poem where appropriate”.
— Sabotage Reviews
“These wide-ranging poems are carefully crafted. The tone ranges from tragedy to comedy, realism to the absurd, accessible to the ambiguous”.
“The care taken by graphic designer Gillian Rose reflects the precision of Rosie Miles’s words on the theme of the painful scuffle to carve out identity and meaning”.
— Envoi 175
“It’s Rosie Miles’s unerring feeling for what it is to be an individual subject to the violence of the world, rather than the depiction of violence itself, that is at the heart of her success. It’s that rare thing: sensitivity”.
— Sphinx/OPOI Reviews
“Rosie Miles’s particular strength is channelling her indignation into a fierce irony and sometimes surreal vision”.
— Artemis 17
“An accomplished and powerful collection”.
— Orbis 175
“This potent pamphlet culminates in the title poem, a work of satire of which Jonathan Swift would be proud”.
— Huffington Post, 28/01/2016