Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2025

Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2025

  It’s that time again! The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its seventeenth year. Later this month, for the second leg of the 2025 exchange, two talented poets – Bernadatte Gallagher and Philip Spillane– will visit Coventry (UK) as representatives...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LINETTE RABSATT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LINETTE RABSATT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LINETTE RABSATT     I’m falling – not because I’m injured it’s because I jumped the roof called me to it and I responded with a hefty leap it’s not that I couldn’t keep my marbles but I lost them a long time ago and although it is...
REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘AGIMAT’

REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘AGIMAT’

REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘AGIMAT’   By Stella Backhouse What does it sound like, the sound of a train that’s gone? Back in pre-digital days, larger railway stations often featured split-flap departure boards whose flaps, as they rapidly slapped against each...
REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’

REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’

REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’   By Stella Backhouse Paul Simon had just turned thirty-four when he released Still Crazy After All These Years. As someone whose own thirty-something heyday is an increasingly distant memory, I could raise a patronising...