REVIEW: JULIAN BISHOP’S ‘WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN’

REVIEW: JULIAN BISHOP’S ‘WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN’

REVIEW: JULIAN BISHOP’S ‘WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN’     By Stella Backhouse   Say out loud the title of Julian Bishop’s new collection We Saw It All Happen and a ghostly question hangs in the after-silence. We saw it all happen….but what did we do? A former BBC...
REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’

REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’

REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’     By Stella Backhouse In Lewis Buxton’s 2021 collection Boy in Various Poses, two strands of poetry converse with each other across the divide of the spine. On the left-hand pages hang short rectangular prose poems whose...
REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’

REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’

REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’     By Stella Backhouse   When it became obvious that French poet and essayist Francis Ponge was a major influence on Suzannah V Evans’ 2021 collection Brightwork, I had to admit my ignorance and Google him. For readers in...
Eve’s Christmas Book List

Eve’s Christmas Book List

CHRISTMAS BOOK LIST By Eve Volungeviciute   Here we are almost at the end of yet another year. I compiled a list of winter themed reads sometime last year, so I figured it is time to pick out some Christmas themed recommendations for fellow readers who wish to...