REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’

REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’     By Stella Backhouse   Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’

REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’

REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’       By Stella Backhouse     In poetry terms, the Shropshire town of Oswestry has only one claim to fame – but it is an impressive one: Wilfred Owen, regarded by many as the pre-eminent poet of World War One, was born there in...
REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   To the romantics among you, the modern menace of fatbergs, defined by Wikipedia as ‘a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed...
THE SNAG (LATERAL VERSION) – BLAISE GILBURD

THE SNAG (LATERAL VERSION) – BLAISE GILBURD

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Green Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some writers and artists who’d sent in work the chance to be published here on the website. Keep an eye on our social media for more great...