INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOSEPHINE ALLEN
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOSEPHINE ALLEN YEAR OF FIRE AND ASH BY J. E. ALLEN ISBN 978-1521516-89-8 £10.00 paperback (£0.99 Kindle)/449 pages Poet and novelist Josephine Allen is originally from Nuneaton but “currently resides in Melton Mowbray...
Tomorrow Poem: ‘But Did’ by William Waters
But Did William Waters You did not want to but did not say until you had. William Waters is an associate professor, in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination...
Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short
Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short On 3rd May 2018, 21-year-old rapper and poet Alice Short was one of our headliners at Fire & Dust. HCE magazine caught up with Alice after the gig, to ask a few questions… HCE: Do you prefer to be called a poet,...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SKYE BEBBINGTON
Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Skye Bebbington While living in Coventry for her studies, Skye Bebbington was a regular at our Fire & Dust open mics. Sadly for the F&D crowd, she moved to Leicester around a year ago so we hadn’t seen much of her for a while –...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW BUTTON
MELTING CHEESE ON THE COSMIC PIZZA BY ANDREW BUTTON erbacce-press ISBN 978-1-907878-94-7 £10.00/96 pages Andrew Button’s first Fire & Dust headline set was back in December 2016, when he was promoting his poetry pamphlet, ‘Dry Days in Wet Towns’. In April 2018, he...
REVIEW: BEN PARKER’S ‘THE AMAZING LOST MAN’
THE AMAZING LOST MAN BY BEN PARKER Eyewear Publishing ISBN 978-1-911335-39-9 £9.99/ 70 pages Reviewed by: Raef Boylan When it comes to poetry, Ben Parker is amazing. And he’s far from lost. Consequently, he had been receiving a lot of praise and respect...
Review: Paul Sutherland’s ‘New & Selected Poems’
NEW & SELECTED POEMS BY PAUL SUTHERLAND Valley Press ISBN 978-1-908853-77-6 £20.00 / 380 pages Reviewed by: Antony Owen Upon reading Paul Sutherland’s masterful New & Selected Poems by Valley Press, an extract from the poem Where Are You...
‘Writer’s Block? Stranger Things!’
Stranger Things Will Help You Through Your Writer's Block! by Aarushi Shetty Do you keep staring at the white screen whilst your brain plays dead? Have you lost the will to write anything? Then it is time for you to delve into the world of Stranger Things......
‘You Just Don’t Come Here’ by J. Ryan Sommers
HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Brutal Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Check out our social media as we've posted more great...
‘Seal Cub’ by Ion Corcos
HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Brutal Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Check out our social media, as we've posted more great...