by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 3, 2023
REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’ By Stella Backhouse When it became obvious that French poet and essayist Francis Ponge was a major influence on Suzannah V Evans’ 2021 collection Brightwork, I had to admit my ignorance and Google him. For readers in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2022
REVIEW: CATHY GALVIN’S ‘WALKING THE COVENTRY RING ROAD WITH LADY GODIVA’ By Stella Backhouse Reading poetry about places you’re familiar with is always special; so when I found that Cathy Galvin’s 2019 chapbook Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 16, 2022
REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sometimes – to paraphrase Tammy Wynette – it’s hard to be a man. In the last few years alone, the patriarchal throne has been rocked by #metoo’s exposure of the sickening ubiquity of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 22, 2022
REVIEW: TINA SEDERHOLM’S ‘THIS IS NOT THERAPY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Tina Sederholm’s 2021 collection This Is Not Therapy is ambiguous. Is it a warning to the reader? Or a position-statement from the poet on how she feels about her...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2022
REVIEW: ROY MCFARLANE’S ‘LIVING BY TROUBLED WATERS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I hope Roy McFarlane’s new collection Living By Troubled Waters will be taught in schools. It deserves to be – indeed, it needs to be – for a number of important...
