REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’

REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’

REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’     By Stella Backhouse What does the unconscious feel like? Notice, I’m not asking what it looks like. That’s not because we know what it looks like – probably it doesn’t ‘look like’ anything in the conventional...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE   The man with the gap-toothed smile is off back to his flat, where he lives alone. Ya see that tattoo? he says. Him proffering a forearm, me fumbling for glasses because the devil’s in the detail. Seventy-five quid that...
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’     By Stella Backhouse   Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI     You move through the kitchen – an exhalation, no longer seeing the orange and beige you adopted. You miss the smell of red earth but understand tea here – the kettle, a squat matriarch upon the stove. And clinks of...
Gods and Monsters: The Banshee

Gods and Monsters: The Banshee

Gods and Monsters: The Banshee Eve Volungeviciute   Another instalment of the mythological creature deep dive series has arrived. This time we are looking at a fairly well-known – however, not as mainstream – entity, the banshee. I will keep the same format where...