by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 31, 2022
REVIEW: KATY WAREHAM MORRIS’ ‘VIOLET EXISTENCE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “A doing person./Busy, always busy. I don’t [white space] quit”. In late October 2022, as I read those lines from Katy Wareham Morris’s recent pamphlet Violet...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 28, 2022
The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its fourteenth year. Next week, for the second leg of the 2022 exchange, two talented poets – Dean Browne and Victoria Kennefick – will visit Coventry as representatives of Cork (Ireland). In 1958,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 25, 2022
REVIEW: STEFAN MOHAMED’S ‘FAREWELL TOUR’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As an older person, Stefan Mohamed’s state-of-England collection, Farewell Tour, makes me feel a bit damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t. I could come over all huffy at casual dismissals...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 11, 2022
REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’ Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse It makes me feel old, this writing poetry reviews. Collections produced by poets much younger than I am are often loaded with allusions that go right over my head. Caleb...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 2, 2022
Press Release: Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Twin City of Dresden In September, Emilie Lauren Jones (Coventry Poet Laureate) took part in a poetry exchange visit to the city of Dresden in Germany. Dresden and Coventry were twinned in 1956, after both...
