“…crackles with formal skill, with extraordinary, vibrant language … and with great style …”
– Carol Ann Duffy
“This is someone who reflects an expert at work but has their own vivid way of seeing and acting.”
– Ruth Padel
“She has the rare ability to uncover the wide range of implications of the world we live in, be they emotional, spiritual or literary. Here is a new poet with a full locker of accomplishments. She is sure to make an immediate impact.”
– John Stammers
“Her poems bring as powerful a sense of farm, animal and land as the best work of Ted Hughes.”
– PN Review 202 November-December 2011
“This is grown up verse, able to take on the world.”
– Poetry Review 101:2 Summer 2011
“There are some spectacularly good poems here. Each of her poems creates its own small world: it is packed tight, seamless, masterfully compressed. At the same time, she has a light touch, a wry humour, a fine way of extending metaphor... make no mistake, Menos is a very good poet.”
– New Walk 1 Autumn/Winter 2010
19/03/12: Hilary Menos will be reading at the Forward Prizes for Poetry 20th Anniversary celebration, King's Place, King's Cross, London
14-18 March 2012: Hilary Menos will be reading at StAnza, Scotlands International Poetry Festival link
06/10/10: Berg wins the Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection 2010 link
1/7/10: Hilary Menos is one of four winners of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition 2010 with Wheelbarrow Farm
The pamphlets launch at the Derwent Poetry Festival, 12th – 14th November, in Matlock Bath link25/6/10: Berg shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award 2010