"Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest,
toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer
to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler."--The Globe and Mail

"Whittal
is able to compactly reveal the sadness, anxiety, madness, and desire
of her poetic subjects, using potent imagery and dark humour."--Montreal Review of Books

"Zoe
Whittall's book of poetry begins with a sense of frustration: 'You have
love and the word love, but the two will never meet.' Once into this
attractively packaged collection, you can quickly deem Whittall's
frustration with language unnecessary. Her words, dense with meaning,
flow in such a serene manner that they beg to be read aloud. With these
words, Whittall transforms you into a shameless voyeur, peering into the
speaker's strangest emotions and wildest weekends."--Broken Pencil

"Zoe Whittall's works in The Emily Valentine Poems will have you smiling, sneering, smirking, and just plain irking in no time at all."--Black Heart Magazine

"This reminds me that I would like to know everything about this person."--Eileen Myles

"Zoe Whittall's poems are snake bite cures masquerading as candy."--RM Vaughan

"Whittall's
big sense of humour is the under-coat on all these poems but it doesn't
take much reminding that the serious side of Zoe Whittall is stone
cold."--Michael Dennis