Marike Beyers, Wordstock, 6 July 2005:
"The poems deal quite directly with modern urban life and an off-centre experience of the self. ... a playful and sometimes flippant grin at notions of belonging, of finding meaning in work and relations which can only be incidental."
Kate Kilalea, New Coin, December 2004:
"I cannot particularly compare ["compared to not eating tuna or chocolate"] to anything i've read in South Africa recently, something simultaneously intensely refreshing and daunting. ...poetry which surprises not only in its logic, but the visibility of the manner in which that logic is apprehended... like waves oscillating around an invisible centre, rather than by building on or dissecting an obvious point. [Nadine Botha's] poetry has a knack of knottng your head into itself."
Stacy Hardy, Litnet:
"[Nadine Botha's poetry is] so fucking cool and hip, but at the same time it makes me squirm. It's like confections that dissolve into sensations on the tongue, a sticky substance that gets caught in between my teeth."