INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DK

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DK

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DK     DK is a remarkable individual, a freestyle poet and a musician with exceptional skills. Dedicated to social justice, he is a passionate advocate for asexual and vegan activism, cannabis reform, animal rights, and equality....
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY     Now when we watch TV there’s something making me sit upright, as if I have a python on my head, and I try to tell if you’ve noticed, but there’s no way of telling, you’re sitting still too but maybe there’s something...
REVIEW: STANLEY IYANU’S ‘MY ACHILLES’

REVIEW: STANLEY IYANU’S ‘MY ACHILLES’

REVIEW: STANLEY IYANU’S ‘MY ACHILLES’   By Stella Backhouse Its title suggestive of both identification and vulnerability, Stanley Iyanu’s 2023 pamphlet My Achilles celebrates popular poetry’s role in both revealing the inner reality of outwardly...
REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’

REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’

REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’     By Stella Backhouse Though it includes no poems on the subject, something about Pen Kease’s 2024 collection This Side of the Sea conjured up mental pictures of ploughmen, harrowing fields with horses under...