Event admires the 'brilliant' Matthew Tierney

'The Hayflick Limit, Matthew Tierney's second collection of poetry, is a fine object to handle physically and admire without reading a word. My strongest inclination on finishing this collection was to begin simply to catalogue not the poems but the individual passages - ranging from subclauses to stanzas - that troubled me with that familiar mix of envy and awe one feels in the face of a brilliant contemporary ... This is a book about limits: The speakers in these poems seem to stand weak-kneed at that point where traditional notions of humanity and rationality begin to shift or disintegrate or transform ... These are ambitious themes, and worth the attention of our best poets.'