INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE   The man with the gap-toothed smile is off back to his flat, where he lives alone. Ya see that tattoo? he says. Him proffering a forearm, me fumbling for glasses because the devil’s in the detail. Seventy-five quid that...
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’     By Stella Backhouse   Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI     You move through the kitchen – an exhalation, no longer seeing the orange and beige you adopted. You miss the smell of red earth but understand tea here – the kettle, a squat matriarch upon the stove. And clinks of...
Gods and Monsters: The Banshee

Gods and Monsters: The Banshee

Gods and Monsters: The Banshee Eve Volungeviciute   Another instalment of the mythological creature deep dive series has arrived. This time we are looking at a fairly well-known – however, not as mainstream – entity, the banshee. I will keep the same format where...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LANTERN CARRIER

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LANTERN CARRIER

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS THE LANTERN CARRIER    I wish I could sing like starlings; Dart within the foliage of lush green leaves. Display the eloquence of nightingales, Awakening the flowers with magical words. I wish I could resonate like music, me,...