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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2019
REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’ DIRTY LAUNDRY BY DEBORAH ALMA Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027416 £9.99/80 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse For me, the turning point of Deborah Alma’s debut collection Dirty Laundry comes near the end. Until that point,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2018
Seeing YellowMary Rose McCarthy At forty, Alison had come to detest the colour yellow. And she saw it everywhere. She wasn’t the navel gazing type, but if she thought at all about her problem with yellow, she figured it could have something to do with an unremembered...
