 In "Poetry Review", Sarah Wardle called 'Profit and Loss', ""[a]n outstanding Audenesque long poem ... [which] makes this book essential reading, as it brilliantly captures the zeitgeist...'"" Bernard O'Donoghue wrote in TLS Books of the Year, ""My favourite book was Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn (Cape), demonstrating her unrivalled capacity as a good-humoured but devastating observer of the modern secular scene.