The Hard Word Box is an exploration of language and through it, humanity. It shows what language can do. It is also in its wisdom, at peace with the limits of language.
Anja Konig, Sabotage Reviews

In The Hard Word Box's mix of found poetry, prose transcripts of conversations that are fascinating and engrossing in their own right, and poetic insights, Hesketh as a detached observer has avoided sentimentality and sent back a despatch from the social care frontline - and at the same time produced a work that extends the boundaries of poetic investigation into a subject that is likely to affect nearly every one of us.
Greg Freeman, Write Out Loud