by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 31, 2022
Here comes February! In the UK, the Omicron variant is around but life has taken a few more steps back into normality. However, plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing out to attend gigs, especially those who are vulnerable. If...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 21, 2022
REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Something called “the big pushchair” makes several appearances in Threat, Julia Webb’s 2019 collection about growing up in rural Norfolk. The pushchair is not the subject of any...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 12, 2022
REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘RECKLESS PAPER BIRDS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Like swallows perched on a telegraph wire, the poems in John McCullough’s 2019 collection Reckless Paper Birds poems are delicately balanced. Located on the boundaries we...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 11, 2022
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS J. VAN RYAN John VanRyan is a Coventry-based poet and musician who describes himself as “appearing on the poet’s podium out of nowhere”. He spent 20 years as a singer/sax player, but that part of his life was...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2022
REVIEW: GENEVIEVE CARVER’S ‘A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO BE CRAZY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The front cover of Genevieve Carver’s 2020 collection A Beautiful Way to be Crazy and other poems from the stage shows a photograph by Alexandra Wallace. On the...
