REVIEW: VRON MCINTYRE’S ‘RANDOM TRAIL’

REVIEW: VRON MCINTYRE’S ‘RANDOM TRAIL’

REVIEW: VRON MCINTYRE’S ‘RANDOM TRAIL’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Vron McIntyre’s 2021 collection Random Trail is a tale of shifting perspectives. In ‘Patterns’, the opening poem, McIntyre wonderingly describes their childhood self,...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SPOZ

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SPOZ

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SPOZ   “He stands next to Oswald Moseley pictures, to learn stuff via osmosis, The mere mention of asylum seekers, can lead to a near thrombosis, If only he were a rabbit, so we could bring on some myxomatosis For the preposterous...
August 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

August 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

August 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events     August is coming in hot, hot, hot! For most events organisers, this summer has been an improvement on the past two but, with rates of COVID fluctuating, we are still combatting various challenges to ensure...
CORK-COVENTRY TWIN CITIES POETRY EXCHANGE (2022)

CORK-COVENTRY TWIN CITIES POETRY EXCHANGE (2022)

  The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its fourteenth year. Two rising stars of Coventry’s local poetry/spoken word scene, Sujana Crawford and John Bernard, have been selected to represent the city this year, which involves travelling to Cork...