REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’

REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’

REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’     By Stella Backhouse These are the facts: in the 2016 EU referendum, England’s North East registered the third highest leave vote by region; nationally, the older you were, the more likely you were to vote leave; and...
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MARTIN HAYES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MARTIN HAYES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MARTIN HAYES     Ox loved the fields they gave him meaning when all the leaky barn did was pile hour upon hour upon hour of proof that all he was was an ox the fields allowed Ox to stretch his loins out use his bulk to heave and...
Press Release: Coventry Welcomes Dresden Poet

Press Release: Coventry Welcomes Dresden Poet

Coventry Welcomes Dresden Poet for New Writers Exchange As part of the newly launched Coventry-Dresden Writers Exchange, poet and artist Christian Maans will be visiting the city from 4th April 2023.   Dresden and Coventry were twinned in 1959, after both cities...
Press Release: Springboard Festival

Press Release: Springboard Festival

COMING VERY SOON: SPRINGBOARD FESTIVAL! 25th March to 1st April 2023     Springboard Festival will be a week-long string of performing arts events over eight days from Saturday 25th March to 1st April. Held at the Criterion Theatre, amongst the restaurants...
REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’

REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’

REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’       By Stella Backhouse   I was not orphaned at age ten but my father was; and even though I have since childhood mourned the grandparents I never met and felt the gaping void that was their absence, I...