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 words will utterly captivate you. She has a way of seeing the world in a way that only a poet can see, a way of producing a novel that only she can produce. 

—Barry Pierce, Big Issue

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