April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events     Finally, winter is over and April is here! In the UK, life has taken some steps into normality but Covid cases are back on the rise. Plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing out to...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PHYNNE~BELLE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PHYNNE~BELLE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PHYNNE~BELLE         Phynne~Belle is a poet, writer and animal lover who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with “too many cats and dogs”. She has recently had her poetry featured in Postall Magazine’s inaugural issue...
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...
REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS: POEMS FROM THE HEART OF THE NHS’ ANTHOLOGY     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   I wasn’t sure I would like this anthology. A collection of “poems from the heart of the NHS” – especially one whose launch coincided with the pandemic’s...
OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY: GODS AND MONSTERS

OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY: GODS AND MONSTERS

OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY: GODS AND MONSTERS   By Eve Volungeviciute   With this article, we finally conclude our world tour of different mythologies and folklore. Our last stop is a pretty far-away one: the Oceanic region. While there wasn’t tons of information for me to...