Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part Two

Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part Two

  It’s that time again! The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its sixteenth year. Later this month, for the second leg of the 2024 exchange, two talented poets – Catherine Ronan and Cédric Bikond Nkoma – will visit Coventry (UK) as representatives of...
Review: Ricky Ray’s ‘The Soul We Share’

Review: Ricky Ray’s ‘The Soul We Share’

Review: Ricky Ray, The Soul We Share (Fly on the Wall Press, 2024)   By Meg Freer   The Soul We Share, a new collection by American poet, essayist, and self-described mystic Ricky Ray, takes as its impetus his shared life with his beloved dog Addie, who...
REVIEW: ‘THE BOOK OF COVENTRY’

REVIEW: ‘THE BOOK OF COVENTRY’

REVIEW: ‘THE BOOK OF COVENTRY’   By Stella Backhouse   In his introduction to Comma Press’s Book of Coventry: A City in Short Fiction, editor Raef Boylan says that what those behind the project were seeking from the eleven short stories showcased here...
COVENTRY NEWS: RETURN OF THE TOLKIEN GROUP

COVENTRY NEWS: RETURN OF THE TOLKIEN GROUP

Coventry Moot, The Rangers of Mordor Minor   By Dominic Russell       Today, I went to the Coventry Moot of The Rangers of Mordor Minor. This is, of course, a Tolkien thing. In the Tolkien Society, local groups are called Smials after the dwellings...
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’   By Stella Backhouse   One of the most important strands of twenty-first century revisionist history has been its prioritising of Britain’s slaving and colonialist past to the building of the modern nation. Like...