“Katherine Leyton debuts with a brash, provocative collection centred around how women are seen by men, as expressed in popular culture, and how women internalize that male gaze.”
– Toronto Star

“An outstanding debut, filled with complicated yet still vivid imagery. Leyton’s lines lift off the page to throttle you.”
– Winnipeg Free Press

“Leyton’s writing speaks in soft whispers but hits like a sledgehammer.”
– Publishers Weekly

“In this fierce debut, Leyton explores women as palaces and grand pianos, gleaming objects admired and shattered. Through her lyrically exuberant voice, whirring with musicality and subversive jabs, art becomes a looking glass. Just as ‘women hum to drown their hunger,’ these poems bring the salve of self-creation to their reader.”
“Leyton’s voice is both enigmatic and unabashed, delving into the mysteries of selfhood while offering a vivid meditation on what it means to be a woman alive today. A fearless, urgent, and beautifully wrought debut.”
“Katherine Leyton’s debut offers a sobering view of the social uses and sometimes cruel mediations of the female body. In All the Gold Hurts My Mouth, sexual politics move between individual, material realties and abstracted representation while considering the intricacies of desire, sociopathy and power relations connecting the two.”
– herizons