Coventry-Dresden Twin Cities Poetry Exchange 2022
The first ever Dresden-Coventry Poetry Exchange has been happening in 2022! As part of this exchange, four poets representing the Dresden scene will soon be joining a Coventry (and beyond!) audience online for a Fire&Dust special…
REVIEW: KATY WAREHAM MORRIS’ ‘VIOLET EXISTENCE’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | Katy Wareham Morris says of her poems in new collection ‘Violet Existence’: “they represent the pervasive nature of my Imposter Syndrome: an imposter in my own body, family, work and the world. And of course, in the ‘world of poetry’. […]
SPOOKY INDIE READS
By Eve Volungeviciute | For those who like reading according to the time of the year and those who genuinely love creepy books, HCE’s Eve has compiled a list of titles and synopses that should satisfy your cravings. […]
CORK-COVENTRY TWIN CITIES POETRY EXCHANGE (2022) – Part Two
The annual Twin Cities Poetry Exchange is now in its fourteenth year. In November 2022, for the second leg of the exchange, two talented poets – Dean Browne and Victoria Kennefick – will visit Coventry as representatives of Cork (Ireland)…
REVIEW: STEFAN MOHAMED’S ‘FAREWELL TOUR’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | The premise of Farewell Tour is a road-trip across a parody of England, ending at the coast “where you will park the car/and with much ceremony/hurl yourself into the waiting arms of the sea.” The participants are mysterious. There’s someone who […]
Eve’s Ranking: Mythological Monsters
Welcome to spooky season! Scary creatures of all kinds from various cultures have been subjects of many books, movies, TV shows, plays and so on. But what constitutes as scary? Eve Volungeviciute has hunted down some monsters and shares her ranking with us, from mildly creepy to outright terrifying…
REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’
By Stella Backhouse | Bobby Parker’s 2022 collection ‘Honey Monster’ documents his working-class background and the bleak discourse of poverty, addiction, casual violence, mental illness and sexual abuse that formed the cruel narratives of both his child and adult lives. The contents matter-of-factly recount tragi-comic realities that should not seem normal, such as moving the gun on the kitchen table to […]
Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Dresden
[Press release] In September 2022, Emilie Lauren Jones (Coventry Poet Laureate) travelled overseas to the city of Dresden in Germany, for the first ever Coventry-Dresden poetry exchange visit…
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS KEN CUMBERLIDGE
Poet Ken Cumberlidge has twice been a regional finalist at Hammer & Tongue Cambridge, and his work can be found in numerous publications, both print and online. In September, Ken headlined at Fire&Dust. We caught up with him after the gig, to ask a few questions…
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES
Jemima Hughes is a Birmingham-based performance poet and multi-slam winner whose work emphasises mental health awareness and covers taboo subjects such as sexual violence, mental illness and suicide. On 1st September, she headlined at Fire & Dust. HCE caught up with Jemima after the gig, to ask a few questions…