INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN WOODWORMHedgehog Press ISBN 978-1-9164806-2-9£12.00/72+ pages  “I’m not wiping sweat from my foreheadbut cobwebs from the metal ferns; I appear to be drunk on 23rd streethaving forgot the name of my hotel again; I see the...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DWANE READS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DWANE READS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DWANE READS THE ANNOYING MEGAPHONE PIGEON BY DWANE READSPiggyback PressISBN 978-0-9535626-2-6£6.00/97 pages Based in Derby, Dwane Reads has been kicking around in different artistic guises since 1985. A member of the DIY Poets in...
SABOTEUR AWARDS 2019

SABOTEUR AWARDS 2019

SABOTEUR AWARDS – HELP US GET SHORTLISTED AGAIN!     The Saboteur Awards spotlight a diverse range of literary publications, events and writers on the UK indie literature scene. As you remember, we were chuffed when our monthly poetry event in Coventry, Fire...
REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’ KITH BY JO BELL NINE ARCHES PRESS ISBN: 978-0993120107 98 pages/£9.99 Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the concluding lines of the title poem of this, her second collection, Jo Bell observes to those who are her Kith: “I am not who I think I...
REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’

REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’

REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’ ASSEMBLY LINES BY JANE COMMANEBLOODAXE BOOKSISBN: 978-1780374086£9.95/64 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Sexual intercourse” declared Philp Larkin in his second-most-celebrated opening line “began/ in nineteen sixty three”....