by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 21, 2020
WE ALL HAVE TO FACE OUR FEARS EVENTUALLY: a Review of Naomi Booth’s Sealed Reviewed by Eve Volungeviciute ‘That was the old magic. But we live in new times. I can’t depend on the old magic of skin, on the old secrets of healing. Our skin in a hex on us...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 11, 2020
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’ COLLECTION ONLY AIR BY STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN BURNING EYE BOOKS ISBN: 978-1911570592 £9.99/32 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Mirrors generally assume a standing observer – a situation that, if you’re not...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 8, 2019
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”...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 20, 2019
REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’ BESHARAM BY NAFEESA HAMID Verve Poetry Press ISBN: 978-1 912565 05 4 £9.99/108 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse What intrigues me most about Nafeesa Hamid’s début collection Besharam (One who is shameless) is the innovative...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 30, 2019
REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’ KITH BY JO BELL NINE ARCHES PRESS ISBN: 978-0993120107 98 pages/£9.99 Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the concluding lines of the title poem of this, her second collection, Jo Bell observes to those who are her Kith: “I am not who I think I...
