[6] Cordite Poetry Review described it as "a rare debut collection of poems that dazzles and delights with a profane, childlike wisdom".
[6][7] Claire Lacey for Landfall Review Online praised it as a "celebration of poetic craft" which "rewards the attentive reader through the accretion of linkages and lineages throughout the text".
[2][6] In 2017 she received a highly commended award in the Landfall Essay Competition,[9] and she has also been shortlisted for the Calibre Prize.
[10][11] As of 2024[update], Edmeades teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Otago.
[15] In 2022, Bordering on the Miraculous was published, a collaboration between Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek.