by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2021
REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME POETRY FROM THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Making poetry about climate crisis and environmental emergency is challenging. Nature is of course an age-old fount of poetic inspiration; but the whole point of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 6, 2021
REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse It’s perhaps appropriate that The Mask, Elisabeth Horan’s chapbook of poetry inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, is published by The Broken Spine Artist Collective. In recent years, Kahlo’s...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 24, 2021
REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse This week, my grateful thanks are extended to the possibly slightly unlikely personage of glamorous TV presenter Melanie Sykes. Sykes’ recent revelation that she has been diagnosed with autistic...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 10, 2021
REVIEW: JACQUELINE SAPHRA’S ‘ONE HUNDRED LOCKDOWN SONNETS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” It’s funny how you forget. If I have any...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 7, 2021
REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Started your Christmas shopping yet? Here’s a bit of advice: if you’re giving poetry books this year, maybe don’t choose George Ttoouli’s 2020 volume from ANIMAL ILLICIT...
