Praise for Samantha's poetry

"Samantha Roden’s work is shot through with the

longing and despair of the everyday and the everynight,

but they take you further than a thousand over-reaches

for profundity. They speak in a refreshingly direct,

restoratively honest voice which arrested me from start to

finish. These poems retain a sense of hope and generosity

of spirit in spite of all the casual brutality they encounter;

a wit and intelligence accessed via careful sensory

observation which transfigures the permanent markers,

the third-hand buggy, the therapist’s chair. Poems which

know when to look away, and when to leave the door

open." Luke Kennard

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"Samantha Roden is a raw, rare and original voice. She

has the violent honesty of Bukowski, the tenderness of

Simon Armitage and the black humour of Tony

Harrison." Tim Lott

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"Sam Roden reads like a Brum Bukowski mired in the

midlands, full of soot and turmoil and the blackest of

humours. I hang onto her every published word."

Niall Griffiths