COVENTRY NEWS: RETURN OF THE TOLKIEN GROUP

COVENTRY NEWS: RETURN OF THE TOLKIEN GROUP

Coventry Moot, The Rangers of Mordor Minor   By Dominic Russell       Today, I went to the Coventry Moot of The Rangers of Mordor Minor. This is, of course, a Tolkien thing. In the Tolkien Society, local groups are called Smials after the dwellings...
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’   By Stella Backhouse   One of the most important strands of twenty-first century revisionist history has been its prioritising of Britain’s slaving and colonialist past to the building of the modern nation. Like...
COVENTRY’S COMMA PRESS BOOK LAUNCH

COVENTRY’S COMMA PRESS BOOK LAUNCH

COVENTRY’S COMMA PRESS BOOK LAUNCH   Coventry’s literary scene should be buzzing this week, in anticipation of a brand-new short fiction anthology published by Comma Press. The Book of Coventry is the newest addition to their ‘reading the city’ series,...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BEN DAVIS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BEN DAVIS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BEN DAVIS     Ben Davis is a multi-slam winning Midlands poet, an award-winning author of children’s books, and a journalist. He was also a stand-up comedian for a decade, and his poems are packed with wit, playfulness...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROBIN LAMBOLL

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROBIN LAMBOLL

INTERVIEW: ROBIN LAMBOLL AT FIRE&DUST     Dr Robin Lamboll is a research fellow studying climate change at Imperial College London, and writes poetry inspired by the intersection between the human and natural world. Robin has won the UK, Vogon and Madrid...