Eve’s Ranking: Mythological Monsters

Eve’s Ranking: Mythological Monsters

Ranking of Mythological Monstrous Creatures from Creepy to Terrifying By Eve Volungeviciute   Spooky season is fast approaching and with our upcoming issue theme, this article felt appropriate as ever. Monstrous creatures of all kinds from various cultures have...
REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’       Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse   It makes me feel old, this writing poetry reviews. Collections produced by poets much younger than I am are often loaded with allusions that go right over my head. Caleb...
Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Dresden

Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Dresden

Press Release: Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Twin City of Dresden     In September, Emilie Lauren Jones (Coventry Poet Laureate) took part in a poetry exchange visit to the city of Dresden in Germany. Dresden and Coventry were twinned in 1956, after both...
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS KEN CUMBERLIDGE

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS KEN CUMBERLIDGE

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS KEN CUMBERLIDGE     Born in Birkenhead, Ken Cumberlidge cut his performance teeth on the Liverpool pub poetry scene of the 1970s, and has never recovered.  He writes about love, sex, nature, loss, personal identity and...
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES   “You are destined to win this war… because you are the only one in it.” – excerpt from ‘Brother’ in Unorthodox     Jemima Hughes is a Birmingham-based performance poet and multi-slam winner who will drag...