REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET   V20 2019 PAMPHLET BY ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA The Gloucestershire Poetry Society £5.00/24 pages   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Andrea Mbarushimana’s new poetry pamphlet V20 – so titled because it won the 2019...
REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’   THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN BY ANTONY OWEN Knives Forks and Spoons Press ISBN:  978-1-912211-49-4 £18.00/115 pages   Reviewed by Fergus McGonigal   “My hardest battle is tending to a wound that keeps reappearing”...
REVIEW: VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY

REVIEW: VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY

POETRY, CORK, AND A LYING GPS: RAEF AND AYSAR’S VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY By Prabhjot Kaur   The Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange returned for its tenth year in August to celebrate the budding talent of its participating poets, a mutual heritage rich in...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN   “Today, I am black lipstick Wilful, disobedient I am oil slick grin Thick black outline I am bird’s wing I am beast’s flank I am opaque and I am limitless […]” – from ‘Black Lipstick’ by Leanne Moden  ...