If Templar publishes poets like Angela Cleland it should be the 'City Lights' of British poetry and poetry loving Brits should queue up to this breathtakingly fresh opening of new publishing.

A remarkable and highly enjoyable debut from Angela Cleland. Her poems are skilful, witty and inventive, and her oblique approach pierces the heart of life.

Angela Cleland’s first collection rings true; poignant, quirky and knowing. These assured poems deserve to be heard.

This was a richly rewarding quarter including no fewer than three outstanding publications from new-kid-on-the-block, Templar Poetry Press, run from Derbyshire by Alex McMillen. Of these, particularly notable was Angela Cleland's powerful title sequence in Waiting to Burn.

Memorable chapbook whose poems are always about so much more than their literal subject matter. Cleland trusts her readers to recognize the story of an unhappy marriage in a cat's transformation into a dog, or the divine-human power struggle over forbidden knowledge in a guided tour of a factory.