REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’     By Stella Backhouse   20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LKN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LKN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LKN     fairytales are dying odes, as knights in shining cum charged every inch of my skin, pummelling through fingered hours of early morning. i felt it—the barrage of their manhood, the scathing of their nails, the excavation of...
REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’

REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’

REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’     By Stella Backhouse   In a 2020 interview for Belfast-based film-making charity esc films, Irish Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama spoke about the experience of being a gay man in the Catholic church: “I...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN     ‘How to make an angel smile’ (written on a Greek island beach) If there were angels, then this is where they would live, or somewhere like this; not frozen in a gloomy church, stuffed full of...