INTERVIEW: ANDREW BUTTON AT FIRE & DUST
Originally from Nottingham, poet and librarian Andrew Button currently lives in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. His new collection is Music for Empty Car Parks (erbacce-press, January 2020). In 2016, Andrew published pamphlet Dry Days in Wet Towns and his first collection The Melted Cheese on the Cosmic Pizza came out in 2017. He has also had various poems feature in magazines. Andrew’s poetry has been described as observational, anecdotal and ironic, often with a focus on eccentric and obsessive behaviour. His sources of inspiration range from […]
LISTING: EVENTS MOVED ONLINE (April 2020)
We are facing a new challenge amidst the coronavirus crisis. Social distancing has been helping to flatten the curve. But it has also left some people feeling lonely and anxious. It’s not all dull and grey though: artists are coming together to fill the void in our lives through some amazing virtual gigs. So, we at Here Comes Everyone magazine thought of listing some literary open mics […]
INTERVIEW: HCE MEETS SHAUNNA LEE LYNCH
By Prabhjot Kaur Shaunna Lee Lynch is a Cork-native writer, actor, director and producer. Her work weaves modern feminism and pop culture with politics, social commentary and tradition, playfully dismantling conventions. Most recently her play Wishful Thinking premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 which she wrote, acted in and co-produced. As a spoken word artist, she has […]
REVIEW: NAOMI BOOTH’S ‘SEALED’
Naomi Booth’s novel Sealed is a lot of things, but forgettable is not one of them. Branded as ecological horror fiction, the book is that and also much more, as apart from discussing the themes of climate change and pollution, it also talks about paranoia, grief, and, obviously, motherhood. […]
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA
Andrea Mbarushimana is a poet, community connector, artist and peace activist. Her short collection The Africa in my House was published by Silhouette Press in 2017, and she has since won the inaugural V20 pamphlet prize (2019) with Air Show. […]
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT “I dow see ya hair bab matted with all that womb gloop. Meybe I see long locks. Dark auburn with a shock of bright purple. at the front. “What ya think Grandad?” And we know it dow really matter what I or anyone else...
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’
Mirrors generally assume a standing observer – a situation that, if you’re not a wheelchair-user, is unlikely to have caused you serious grief. But returning home from hospital after a sledging accident that left him paraplegic at age sixteen, Stephen Lightbrown is confronted with a new reality […]
REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET
Andrea Mbarushimana’s new poetry pamphlet V20 – so titled because it won the 2019 Gloucester Poetry Society V20 competition – is a delicate Rosetta Stone, a key to unlocking the hieroglyphs of parallel narratives, and rendering them intelligible to we who live obliviously amongst them.
REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’
“My hardest battle is tending to a wound that keeps reappearing” writes Owen in the opening poem of his latest collection, The Unknown Civilian (KFS Press, 2020). The title of the poem provides a context (‘A Black Nurse Tends to Wounds’), but if you have followed Owen’s output over the last decade, you might imagine that he is referring to the task of writing about what has been his greatest preoccupation: human armed conflict and its many shadows.
Announcement: Contributors to The Classified Issue
In The Classified Issue (November 2019), “everyone” was… JEANNA ANDERSON – 'THOSE FILES ARE CLASSIFIED, MA'AM' Jeanna studied art and creative writing at William Woods University. She is best known for her poetry but is also branching out into the...