[1] DeSales Harrison in Boston Review wrote "what remains to be established in Ball’s work is a sense of what responsibilities his luminous, arresting, uncanny dreamscapes call the reader toward".

[2] The Irish poet Eamon Grennan provides the following endorsement on the back cover of the first edition of March Book: "Various in subject matter, consistent in their control of voice, at home in memory, fable, parable, the poems in March Book add up to a mature, surprising and extraordinarily lively first collection.

Jesse Ball's imagination is at once mordant and playful, inhabiting and populating its world with a mixture of enigmatic observation and direct speech.

He stands where the true poet should, in his properly vulnerable position, his motto: 'we are near a truth and daren't speak.'

Like a fractured prism, his poems dissolve the self into other voices and remote situations, each one a glittering shard of some unspoken truth that offers itself 'resolute outside the haze of his own life.'