"Perfect Blue is a rare gem of a collection[...] unlike anything I've recently read, it is a brilliant demonstration of how simple good poetry can be" says Catherine Woodward, in The Osprey Journal.

"Perfect Blue I and II... offer a miscellany of meticulous poems. Ordinary words placed extraordinarily... Macphee shows how she is a tracker of thought, often of one thought, frequently relentlessly focussed and nearly always surprising" says Judy Kendall, in Envoi, issue 156, June 2010.

"The poems within 'The Book of Diseases' perfectly capture the 'otherness' of illness... The lyrical tone of her poetry belies the fact that here is a poet 'fretted by the questions / skulking in the darkest corners of the room'.

Poetry Book Society, PBS Bulletin, Spring 10 - Other New Books.

"This is an enjoyable and accomplished second collection" says Charles Bainbridge, in The Guardian's review of Perfect Blue.

Poet Juliet Wilson provides a brief review of Perfect Blue at her Crafty Green Poet blog.

The Scottish Poetry Library have kindly used "The gift" as their featured poem for March 2010.

The Scottish Arts Council have kindly used "To a young daughter" as their featured poem for March 2010.

The Guardian has kindly featured "Cholera" as its Saturday Poem for February 27th.

The Scottish Review of Books has kindly featured the poems "Scarlet fever", "Gonorrhoea" and "Depression" from The Book of Diseases in its Vol 6, no. 1 edition, published with the Sunday Herald.

Forest Publications have posted an interview with Kona Macphee on their website.

Michelle McGrane has a generous feature on Perfect Blue at Peony Moon, including two poems from the book that aren't online anywhere else.