"Arji Manuelpillai hits the ground running with this debut and I
freaking love it. His poems are funny, irreverent, hugely affecting.
He's fidgety, darts moment to moment - you'll rush after him, then
suddenly find he's stopped, spun on his heel and you're face-to-face
with his good-natured grin. Manuelpillai will dial up the volume just to
whisper something damn beautiful beneath its surface. Every page of
Mutton Rolls is tasty, and announces by increment a highly enjoyable
new voice." -- Wayne Holloway-Smith
"The poems in this brilliant, playful debut are multifarious though
gratifyingly interlinked, addressing the subjects of Sri-Lankan British
identity, masculinity, friendship, grief and love. The tone is sometimes
satirical, but there is no hiding behind satire in Arji
Manuelpillai's work - great tenderness and beauty characterise these
poems, and the poet's voice is completely original, entirely his own."
-- Hannah Lowe
