'Lesley Saunders' Angels on Horseback at first catches you off-guard, seduces you with gorgeous vocabulary, then culminates in a chilling intensity. Lesley ranges through her pantheon of heroines, exploring the violence done to them not through worn rhetoric but through defamiliarising tropes of disturbing beauty and pleasure. It is rare to find poems as perfectly controlled, a pamphlet as assured and startling, as this' — Mimi Khalvati