REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’

REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’

REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   It’s perhaps appropriate that The Mask, Elisabeth Horan’s chapbook of poetry inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, is published by The Broken Spine Artist Collective. In recent years, Kahlo’s...
December 2021 Round-up: Virtual Events

December 2021 Round-up: Virtual Events

    Merry December to you all! The Omicron variant has caused life to take a few steps backwards from resembling normality, but organisers are juggling the various challenges to ensure events can happen safely. Many gigs have returned to their venues (at...
REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’

REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’

REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   This week, my grateful thanks are extended to the possibly slightly unlikely personage of glamorous TV presenter Melanie Sykes. Sykes’ recent revelation that she has been diagnosed with autistic...
INTERVIEW: FIRE AND DUST MEETS CATHY CARSON

INTERVIEW: FIRE AND DUST MEETS CATHY CARSON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS CATHY CARSON     Cathy Carson is a cancer nurse, a counsellor and a spoken word performer from County Down in Northern Ireland. She has headlined at open mics and festivals, performed for radio and television, had work...
INTERVIEW: ANTONY OWEN RETURNS TO FIRE & DUST

INTERVIEW: ANTONY OWEN RETURNS TO FIRE & DUST

INTERVIEW: ANTONY OWEN RETURNS TO FIRE & DUST   COV KIDS BY ANTONY OWEN Knives Forks and Spoons Press ISBN 978-1912211791 £8/48 pages   My suicide note was going to be a timed email the time was the moment I became born. I had hoped to trick God this way,...