"wicked and full of resistance . . . these poems are liberating"

"Adam Lowe loves to usurp a narrative, tell his story, wicked and full of resistance, holding you in the palm of his hands entranced by his lyrics." 

"From ‘Downlow Download’, with its sharp staccato and furtive rendering, to ‘Elsie Tanner for Teens’, full of enjambments, these poems are liberating." 

"These lines encapsulate the ever-presence of danger, the sense of living in the margins with no regrets, the saccharine and sacred play on sex and desire." 

"Whether the speaker in Patterflash is Beyoncé, re-writing the gospel, engaging with Norman MacCaig or bearing witness to the souls lost in the Middle Passage or Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb, everyone rises, renamed, blessed and gloriously, beautifully, lamed."