by Here Comes Everyone | May 26, 2022
REVIEW: SUNDRA LAWRENCE’S ‘WARRIORS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sundra Lawrence packs a lot into her Aryamati Poetry Prize 2021-winning pamphlet Warriors, newly published by Fly on the Wall Press. Although the poems cover just twenty brief...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 21, 2022
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MEL BRADLEY (This is ‘Dearest Women’ in English. It’s the very last piece of the show, but in the show, it’s performed entirely as Gaeilge.) Mel Bradley is a spoken word artist, writer,...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 20, 2022
REVIEW: TOM SASTRY’S ‘YOU HAVE NO NORMAL COUNTRY TO RETURN TO’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As a regular poetry critic, something I’m well-placed to reveal to you is that identity is the pre-eminent preoccupation of modern times. Tackling both his...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 14, 2022
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS CATHI RAE “Your cleaner hates you. Not, of course, in the way she hates Crocs, Jacob Rees Mogg or the kind of people who talk about going for a cheeky Nando’s, but, make no mistake, your cleaner hates you. And just...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 11, 2022
REVIEW: SAM J GRUDGING’S ‘THE BIBLE II’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Your own personal Jesus/Someone to hear your prayers/Someone who’s there.” In 1990, Martin Gore, principal song writer of 80s synth-pop band Depeche Mode, told Spin Magazine that the band’s...
