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Guardian Reader’s Book of the Year, 2007

As with so much in this absorbing book, the title opens onto other, more painful and more puzzling perspectives. Touch and taste, history and healing, are thematic in Jenner’s poetry, which is ultimately about (im)mortality and bloody Time itself - James Keery, PN Review (193)

About Bloody Time is brilliant, full of tactical love of language, attractively drawn to events and arts as well as to the terrible obligations of pastoral and ethical. Best point is that page after page there are things I’m glad I’ve encountered and almost as frequently signs emerge which are new to me and happily met - Peter Porter (2009)

Rich and complex. For me there are essentially two kinds of ‘difficult poetry’—material I find worth engaging with…and that which I don’t. Jenner’s work is very clearly in the first category - Steve Spence, Stride‘Xenakis’, for instance, is a classic - Andrew Duncan

There is genius in this poetry - Martin Seymour-Smith (1998)

Of course, this is ‘difficult’ or ‘modern’ poetry. I believe, however, that the world will catch up with it. This little review is to let you have advance warning so that later on you will be able to say ‘I told you so’ - David Pollard, Tears in the Fence (51)

Simon Jenner is a serious and witty writer. His work is difficult but rewards close attention... There may well be a considerable new poet on the horizon. In my opinion, his best work is yet to come - Robert NyeSuperbly original, I think great poetry - Jeremy Reed

This collection alchemises its way into “the time of a poem” with richness and brilliance. I will be reading it for a long time - Christina Viti

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