REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’

REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’

REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’   By Stella Backhouse Paul Simon had just turned thirty-four when he released Still Crazy After All These Years. As someone whose own thirty-something heyday is an increasingly distant memory, I could raise a patronising...
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’     By Stella Backhouse   20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...