by Here Comes Everyone | May 30, 2023
REVIEW: JOE CARRICK-VARTY’S ‘MORE SKY’ By Stella Backhouse If I had to condense Joe Carrick-Varty’s complex new collection More Sky into just a handful of lines, I’d choose a short section from ‘THE CHILDREN’. In the aftermath of his father’s decision to...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 16, 2023
REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’ By Stella Backhouse In poetry terms, the Shropshire town of Oswestry has only one claim to fame – but it is an impressive one: Wilfred Owen, regarded by many as the pre-eminent poet of World War One, was born there in...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 13, 2023
Writing Advice: The Need for Strong Openings Fiction and Screenplay Emma Evans The genres of fictional prose and screenplay are two of the same – they’re both vehicles in storytelling – and yet they are different. Screenplay is a ‘blueprint’ for the fiction...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 10, 2023
REVIEW: ‘UNKNOWN’ (ANNA ROSE JAMES AND ELIZABETH CHADWICK PYWELL) By Stella Backhouse If you want to really enjoy a poem, how much background info do you need about its subject? Because different people’s minds work differently, a range of responses may...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 7, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SCOTT COE Scott Coe is a performance poet, an artist and the current Stamford Poet Laureate. He started off not as a poet but a lyricist, citing the likes of Noel Gallagher, Lennon & McCartney, Bob Dylan, Guy...
