INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PHYNNE~BELLE
On 13th January, poet, writer, podcaster and animal lover Phynne~Belle from the San Francisco Bay area was our first Fire & Dust virtual headliner of 2022. HCE caught up with her after the gig, to ask a few questions…
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | “[Single Window] is the unflinchingly honest reportage of an intensely challenging year endured by [Sluman] and his wife – “[he] an amputee with chronic pain, [she] suffering from Crohn’s Disease and Fibromyalgia” – in isolation from society “except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them”.
REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | “I have a lot in common with contributors to These Are the Hands, most of whom work in the NHS in some capacity. What’s striking is how many of them have chosen to crystallise their thoughts through recollections of a single patient. Indeed, many of these poems function as a sort of confessional […]”
OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY: GODS AND MONSTERS
By Eve Volungeviciute | Let’s go travelling again! This time, Eve takes us on a trip to the Oceanic region where we’ll be delving into some folklore, mythology, gods and monsters…
Saboteur Awards 2022
It’s that time of the year again: The Saboteur Awards! Literary prizes for independent writers, projects and literary organisations. Between HCE and our Fire & Dust poetry events, we’re eligible for your vote in FOUR categories this year…
REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | “Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I was researching Roz Goddard’s chapbook Lost City in preparation for writing this review. As part of that, I came across a YouTube video of the collection’s online launch in November” […]
March 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events
The HCE magazine team have created another list of online literary open mics, events and workshops, to help you plan for the weeks ahead. Don’t miss out on taking part – seize this opportunity to “travel” far and wide, and even participate in events overseas…
REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | Liz Berry and Tom Hicks’ alchemical Black Country poetry/photography collaboration ‘The Dereliction’ is fuelled by the same juxtaposition of intense feeling with overlooked and decaying landscapes as ‘Live Forever’ by Oasis. The project, which saw Berry respond with poetry to pictures taken by Hicks on an ordinary phone as he cycled around his local area […]
African Mythology: Gods and Monsters
By Eve Volungeviciute | Time for another virtual trip around the world! This time, we are heading to a warmer climate to take a look at African mythology, their folklore, creation myths and deities, as well as monsters…
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | The Perseverance is not only about D/deafness. It’s also about Antrobus’s experience as mixed race – another liminal space, another space of uncertain identity with full acceptance forthcoming from neither side. The missing piece that links D/deafness and race together, he suggests, is […]