“Kwek calmly and consistently draws attention to the overlooked […] in ways that ask, gently, how much you can and must care” - Rishi Dastidar, The Guardian

Also reviewed in: Mekong Review, The Straits Times, Hong Kong Review of Books, Bookish Beck, DURA, The High Window, Manchester Review of Books, California Review of Books

“The First Five Storms' has remarkable range and imaginative depth…These are poems that excavate, honour and renew.” - Helen Mort, New Poets’ Prize 2016

Also shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets