Nice things people have said.
This talented poet turns the reader’s face to the beauty of freaks, holds our feet to the fire of the cultures we frighten, and makes us smile, giggle and guffaw and weep in their loving arms.”
– Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw
“My inner child feels seen by Tom’s poems for children the same way I saw my adult self reflected in their many facets the first time I saw them on stage. My inner monsters feel seen, assuaged, comforted, emboldened through the lens of Tom’s wood-carved words about these other creatures of the world.” –
– Invi Brenna, associate director/producer at the UK centre of the International Theatre Institute.
Juniper’s gift is that he can slip into those otherly perspectives and look back on humanity through the window of whatever hideous, unblinking, alien eyes he now finds himself inhabiting. There are playful, grotesque, mischievous, predatory and melancholy characters in these poems, but more than that, there’s a mirror both honest and warping held up at the world of the reader.
– Tim Ralphs, Storyteller
“Entertaining enough.”
– The Yorkshire Post
Tom Juniper Poetry 