The Pride Of Lions shows Joolz in a new light. She’s now as much a story-teller as a performance poet. Her powerful accounts of life in the modern city are as compelling as the stories of the ancients. In her gripping tales of self-destruction, death and desolation, cruelty is mental and violence happens in the home. And yet, even in a world of trapped lives, injustice and betrayal, not all hopes are blighted, and there is some redemption, however frail, through love. – 1994
“If Chaucer had been a feminist and into funky jazz, he might have written like this: everyday anecdotes, with a tale-telling verve” – Michael Bennett
