In uncertain times it's nice to have something you can rely on. Tim Wells' words turn a gimlet eye on life's good, bad and ugly moments, as well as his own frailties. Imagine Ray Winstone petting a kitten and you get the idea. In his Brisbane Road Saturday schmutter and rude boy demeanour you'd be fooled into thinking he's a man out of time, but Tim Wells is exactly the poet for our times. Sharp, witty and ultimately unforgiving in all the right places.
Phill Jupitus

Remarkably well observed and very funny
PBS Bulletin

Wells is a necessary voice of dissent amongst a narrative dominated by austerity, high rents, funding cuts and Tube strikes [...] Poems that speak of all the promise of a Saturday night and all the hopelessness of a hungover Sunday morning navigate the tensions between hope and despair with wit and humour.
Kyra Hanson, Morning Star

Wells [spits] out what it feels like to be unwelcome in your own manor thanks to 'market forces'. Sometimes four verses can say more than six figures' worth of words.
Lisa Mckenzie, Times Higher Education