‘These are horrible, petty, mean-spirited little poems – my favourite kind’ - Times Literary Supplement

‘This pamphlet has that Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation feeling. You enter a poem smiling and leave in tears or with an inward insight into the threads of life.’ - Nick Makoha

‘These are fresh, funny, real and wry poems! I’ve found a new poet to love!’ - Rachel Long

‘Rachel Cleverly’s poetry articulates the lonely thoughts which accompany life in late-stage England. […] These are poems that will keep you laughing so hard you forget to cry. Prickle heralds the arrival of a much-needed new voice in poetry, one that resembles a wake-up call in its startling brilliance.’ - Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight

‘The world of Prickle opens and you are transfixed. If this were a TV show, each poem would be an episode offering new insights into the mind of Rachel Cleverly, whether awkward or thoughtful.’ - Yomi Ṣode

‘The poems in Prickle are refreshing in their wit and candid interiority. They speak to a distinctly contemporary, 21st-century modernity, in which rents are high, flats are described as ‘affordably small’, bedbugs bite and time accretes and dissipates, at home, at work, ‘In Lidl’ and on and ‘Off the Clock’. If there’s a tough edge, its counterpoint is an intimacy that reaches out to a larger politic in these authentically realised vignettes that resonate under finely calibrated formal pressure. Witty, playful yet inherently serious in their desire to own and utter our truths.’ - Michael Marks Award