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'
As K navigates the experience of falling in love in a foreign tongue, Campanello meditates on how we can break language barriers and, eventually, language itself. Use the Words You Have is effervescent, unfurling like a prose poem.'
—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