Perfect Mess

Bernadette Cremin was the outright winner of the 2005 Biscuit Publishing "Challenge" themed poetry competition. Perfect Mess is her prize award collection. Bernadette lives in Brighton, and has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published in the UK and Eire. Alongside solo commissions Bernadette has collaborated with a music producer (State Art), a film-maker (Indifference Productions) a photographer (ProjectPoetry) and a geneticist (Promise of Threat).

"This book is full of explosive writing. Poems like For The Kids and Vodka and Valium go off in your hands and your heart. They are like gift-wrapped grenades. Enjoy this book - but handle withcare."

Simon Beavis.

"Already celebrated as a performer, Bernadette Cremin's first full collection proves that she can also fill the page with her walk-on cast of lost girls and uneasy lovers. Though many of her poems shoot up and out from life's tough corners, they are trained through a very careful lens and underpinned by bleak humour."

Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe)

"Bernadette Cremin is a poet with a unique ability to connect absolutely with her subject matter and whose often idiosyncratic 'take' on life and use of powerful imagery both delights and surprises. ... a distint voice that resonates in the imagination."

Catherine Smith, (New Writer / Next Generation)

"... a poet at once glamorous and sordid. She writes of call girls and ham actors, moody photos and bedsit divas. Bernadette in lines both precise and honest croons of violence and loss. Hers is the smoky voice of an underclass, forever tough feminine and vulnerable. If Tom Waits had a beautiful stepsister she would sound like Bernadette Cremin."

John O'Donaghue (Waterloo Press)

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