The Book of Jonah

Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets under forty.Tristram Fane Saunders, The Times Literary Supplement

Kennard is an overachieving poet, the youngest ever finalist for a Forward prize back in 2007; his work combines accessibility with formal daring and a twist of surrealismGuardian

Kennard . . . has a poet's ear for noticing the electric in the quotidianGuardian

Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren’t knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes blackCaroline Bird