Use the Words You Have is one of those rare books that not only sparks excitement for the talent on show, but revives a passion for the very possibilities of the medium itself […] Campanello has discreetly slid a masterpiece into the mix.

—Laura Cassidy, Irish Examiner

Use the Words You Have is a testament to language’s curious duality: it constrains, it limits, but it also liberates by offering new ways to communicate, connect and love.

—Bruce Omar Yates, The London Magazine

Campanello’s abiding interest in language transforms this into a moving study of both literary form and desire.

—Katie Tobin, Times Literary Supplement'

Use the Words You Have is effervescent.

—Emily Formstone, The Irish Times

Campanello’s poetics are startlingly inventive [...] This is a work to care about.

– Oluwaseun Olayiwola, The Guardian

Campanello’s neat, surprising endings are a central feature of her highly original prose poems.

–Martina Evans, The Irish Times

Campanello takes a quasi-archaeological approach to past and present in these grounded yet transportive poems. [She] has a gift for drawing inventive, unexpected connections between objects and their meaning, be that historical or transitory, and the results will reward your time and re-reading.

–Maria Crawford, Financial Times

Every detail is interesting in Kimberly Campanello’s An– Interesting Detail.

–Tom Branfoot, Poetry Salzburg