by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 17, 2021
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ELIZABETH MCGEOWN On telling a friend I am writing to an insect theme and finding out months later she has assumed I meant maggots But Maggots do not cross my mind at all: the plump rot-seeking them of single mind. Fat...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 14, 2021
REVIEW: MORAG ANDERSON’S ‘SIN IS DUE TO OPEN IN A ROOM ABOVE KITTY’S’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Morag Anderson’s new chapbook Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s is adapted from a report in a Scottish local paper and refers to the “mixed...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 2, 2021
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘THE LAST CUSTODIAN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Stephen Lightbown’s second collection The Last Custodian tells the story of wheelchair-user Luke and his year-long, self-propelled journey across a post-apocalyptic southern...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 28, 2021
Listing for August 2021: Online Literary Events Hello, August! COVID-19 is still with us, but life has taken a few steps closer to resembling normality. Here in the UK, many Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted. Organisers are juggling various challenges to...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 24, 2021
REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse At first glance, Martin Hayes’ poetry presents as pretty straightforward stuff. Reviewing his earlier collection, The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, I used phrases like “realist...
