by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 23, 2023
REVIEW: KEVIN REID’S ‘SUITCASE’ By Stella Backhouse During lockdown, I experienced homesickness for the first time in years. Don’t get me wrong: I was at home – what is now my home – the whole time. But I couldn’t stop thinking about the town where I...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 18, 2023
REVIEW: CASEY BAILEY’S ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’ By Stella Backhouse Controversy over the BBC’s not-noticeably-overdue new take on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations has reignited debate about the propriety of casting non-white actors in adaptations of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 13, 2023
REVIEW: OLGA DERMOTT-BOND’S ‘A SKY FULL OF STRANGE SPECIMENS’ By Stella Backhouse Insecurity laps the poetry of Olga Dermott-Bond’s 2021 pamphlet A Sky Full of Strange Specimens. I use the word ‘lap’ advisedly: this is a collection where water and disaster haunt...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 11, 2023
REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’ By Stella Backhouse These are the facts: in the 2016 EU referendum, England’s North East registered the third highest leave vote by region; nationally, the older you were, the more likely you were to vote leave; and...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 8, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MARTIN HAYES Ox loved the fields they gave him meaning when all the leaky barn did was pile hour upon hour upon hour of proof that all he was was an ox the fields allowed Ox to stretch his loins out use his bulk to heave and...
