REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’       Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse   It makes me feel old, this writing poetry reviews. Collections produced by poets much younger than I am are often loaded with allusions that go right over my head. Caleb...
REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’

REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’

REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     At first glance, Martin Hayes’ poetry presents as pretty straightforward stuff. Reviewing his earlier collection, The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, I used phrases like “realist...
SUSTAIN – EDWARD LANDER

SUSTAIN – EDWARD LANDER

      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...

‘Meet the Future Manager’by Angela Arnold

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Brutal Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Keep an eye on our social media for more great writing like...