Announcement: Contributors to the Transition Issue
In the Transition Issue (Sept 2016), "everybody" was... Janet Reed – Losing the Farm [Featured Poem] Erin Smith – More Class than Custard [Featured Story] Rebecca Milton – Repetition and Recovery Bill Vernon – American Bridge Robert Beveridge – Seven...
Fire & Dust at Big Comfy Lit Fest
This coming weekend (9th-11th September), The Big Comfy Bookshop is holding a literature festival up in Coventry's Fargo Village. There's going to be lots of interesting stuff going on over the three days, including guest writers, book talks, book signings and live...
The Blood House – by Sarer Scotthorne – REVIEW
Sarer Scotthorne has produced a bold and brilliant book – a poetic account of the struggle to re-assert sovereignty over the mind and body. The Blood House is a metaphor, the body as the “place” in time we...
Announcement: Contributors to the Blood & Water Issue
In the Blood & Water Issue (April 2016), "everybody" was... Adam Steiner Gary Sykes-Blythe Nicelle Davis AJ Huffman Bethanie Humphreys Tamam Kahn John Kitchen Megan Merchant Antony Owen Barry Patterson Jeff Phelps Heather Lee Rogers Benjamin Nardlilli...
Look Out for…The Blood House (review)
Featuring in the Blood and Water Issue: a review of 'The Blood House'. Keep an eye out in the upcoming issue of HCE for a review of this new collection from feminist poet Sarer Scotthorne. Adam Steiner explores his response to this pamphlet, described by...
MY IDEA OF FUN – REVIEW – Enjoying It by Alfie Bown
Enjoying It by Alfie Bown Zero Books, 2015. This book is a study of enjoyment and of the enjoyment of studying. It asks what enjoyment says about us and what we say about enjoyment, and why. One of the perennial questions of philosophy, and life, remains Happiness –...
In the Kitsch Issue (October 2015), “everybody” was… Hal O’Leary Beau Bordeaux Gram Davies Sarah Gonnet John Mason Richard King Perkins II Barry Tench Simon Williams George Alabaster Josephine Allen Annie Dawid Thomas Mundt Sarah Spilsbury
Atrocity Exhibition – a review of Margaret Thatcher’s Museum
Margaret Thatcher’s Museum by Antony Owen A stirring pamphlet of contemporary poetry, at once scathing, damning and life-affirming on the state of modern Britain viewed...
Review – Luxury of the Dispossessed – Dan Duggan
Luxury of the Dispossessed – Dan Duggan Influx Press, 2015. A thoughtful and affirmative poetry collection gives fresh insight to the daily reality of being sectioned under the mental health act. ...
Of Fences
by Sarah James lifeislikeacherrytree http://www.sarah-james.co.uk/ ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken ‘Our wills and fates do so contrary run’ William Shakespeare, Hamlet Yes, two hands on the steering wheel allow for a manual...