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Fetch
by Tamar Yoseloff
launching April 2007 by Salt Publishing
Though she holds life precious, she is not precious herself: alert to Tommy Cooper, paper cups, biros, belisha beacons... Seduction, sharp edges, high seriousness, satire--this book has them all... Fetch, her sensitive, sassy third collection, is her best yet.'
––Anne Berkeley, Seam
These are dark poems in the best sense of the word, edgy, unnerving, but glittering, too. Tamar Yoseloff can make a visit to the dentist or a lamb curry sexy and sinister. I’ve followed her career from the beginning; Fetch is her most ambitious book yet, and her best.
––Matthew Francis
These compressed and vivid poems have a mind and a music all their own. Tamar Yoseloff is emerging as one of the best poets of her generation.
––Thomas Lux
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Barnard's Star
by Tamar Yoseloff
published 2004 by Enitharmon
In Tamar Yoseloff’s second collection, the spirit presiding over the most successful pieces is the Lowell of Life Studies. This goes beyond the drawing on personal material (often from the poet’s American childhood), to the seemingly casual forms of the poems, the telling details, the tentative observer, the reined-in emotional tone, the particulars implying a wider social malaise.
––Martyn Crucefix, Magma
This is poetry of a strange power, which lingers lovingly on the lush details of life before it stares, unflinching, at its close.
––Alison Brackenbury, PN Review
Tamar Yoseloff is a poet with a haunted imagination. She has an acute sense of personal and historical experience, and a special feel for words and images that ground her poems upon the actualities of time and place. In consequence it is the livingness of the past that she renders in a poetry quick with vivid detail.
––Jeremy Hooker
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Sweetheart
by Tamar Yoseloff
published 1998 by Slow Dancer Books
It is a striking debut . . . there is much eloquent discussion of memory and the organs in our bodies that give us life. Yoseloff's writing has a combination of deference and bite, as though it’s a voice that is active and passive at the same time.
––Daniel Paddington, Time Out
Her gift is to make the outlandish look accidental, in a conjunction of love and creativity achieved with warmth and witty ironies.
––John Forth, London Magazine
The monologue, in both its personal-reflective and character-based forms, is not currently a la mode, which makes it all the more pleasing to find Yoseloff using the genre in so bold and blazing a fashion. She knows better than to toy shamelessly with the voices of the dead; her invented personae are bright and motley enough - a painter who specializes in dead pets, the owner of a Hicksville Marian shrine, a woman who falls for a freak-show giant.
––Roddy Lumsden, Times Literary Supplement
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Anthologies in which my work appears
Reactions 4
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New Writing 12
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Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Anthology
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