MX SIMP

‘Some of the strongest poems written have belonged to the poetry of witness. I would put Kate Hendry’s MX SIMP in this category. Recording her journey through breast cancer, her poems have the same vivid, wrenching effect on the reader as the poems Wilfred Owen wrote about his experience of war. They approach the darkest moments with an ironic wit. They are the poems of a poet fully alive to her senses, finding, like Owen, an imagery and language to describe the almost indescribable.’ Vicki Feaver