Sue Finch’s debut collection Magnifying Glass focuses the lens on moments in time and carries the reader from childhood through to adulthood. The poems are dark, occasionally twisted and often poignant.

‘Sue Finch’s poems are flesh on the skeletons of folktales. They are inhabited by creatures who breathe quietly in the human dusk.  They are tender, straight-talking, yet can catch you off-guard with their slanted pathways.’  

Helen Ivory

‘To read Sue Finch is to be transported to other worlds, not just the gorgeous yet unsettling lands of the Hare Mother, the Red Shoes or a traumatised Rapunzel, but to worlds in which the everyday is transformed into the stuff of myth and legend.

A glorious and transcendent read from a poet with a fiercely original vision of the world, and a strongly developed imagination.’

Anna Saunders, Cheltenham Poetry Festival Founding Director

'Sue Finch’s poems have the ability both to beguile and shock you with their humour, tenderness and darkness. Her confident dexterity with language and voice scoops the reader up and deposits them firmly in the world of her poems, whether that be family history, domesticity or an old fairy tale seen through new eyes. Sue’s writing is vivid; it's curious. Her poems question and challenge the reader to be curious too; it’s a challenge well worth accepting.'

Georgi Gill, Editor, The Interpreter’s House