One of The Australian's books of the year for 2014.

Keeps will go a long way to establishing Holt as a major young poet. The themes and abiding concerns of the first two books (history, music, art, friendship and love) are taken up again, and Holt has intensified the challenging syntax of previous work to create a complex, musical series of poems that demand close reading.

Holt’s imagery can be unsettling, disturbing, hilarious and tender simultaneously, and it takes a deft hand and profound musical ear to make this happen. Other poems such as 'Love (Enlarged)', 'Love (Take a Pillar)' and the extraordinary sequence 'The Indigo Banjo, or Methodologies', make Keeps cohere and sing.

- The Saturday Paper

With a density of figure and allusion rarely paralleled in contemporary Australian poetry, Holt creates poems that are at once highly personal and rigorously theoretical, at once ekphrastic and existential. She is capable of describing a shark with the same intricate fascination as she does an intimate moment or a famous sculpture . . . Highly Commended.

- Judges' comment, 2015 Wesley Michel Wright Prize