by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 4, 2022
REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Samantha Walton has already described Caleb Parkin’s 2021 collection This Fruiting Body as “a post-human lyric disco lit with ecological thought”; and as I doubt I can...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 20, 2022
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 14, 2022
REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS: POEMS FROM THE HEART OF THE NHS’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I wasn’t sure I would like this anthology. A collection of “poems from the heart of the NHS” – especially one whose launch coincided with the pandemic’s...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 1, 2022
REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I was researching Roz Goddard’s chapbook Lost City in preparation for writing this review. As part of that, I came across a YouTube...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 15, 2022
REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’ (LIZ BERRY & TOM HICKS) Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Maybe you’re the same as me/We see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever…” Half-watching a documentary about 1990s guitar...
