INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES   “You are destined to win this war… because you are the only one in it.” – excerpt from ‘Brother’ in Unorthodox     Jemima Hughes is a Birmingham-based performance poet and multi-slam winner who will drag...
REVIEW: JO BRATTEN’S ‘CLIMACTERIC’

REVIEW: JO BRATTEN’S ‘CLIMACTERIC’

REVIEW: JO BRATTEN’S ‘CLIMACTERIC’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse    Climacteric, Jo Bratten’s début pamphlet from Fly on the Wall Press, is a proper poet’s collection. What I mean by that is – it’s highly literary, liberally peppered with couplets, tercets and...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA KEMP

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA KEMP

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA KEMP     “Revelation’s detonation – at least until the renewal of things – gashes small, late in the day, stirred blue embers startling. I find if I take one book from the shelf, all the others will fall”...
September 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

September 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

September 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events     September arrives, and summer begins to melt away into memories. Hopefully, one day, the Covid-19 pandemic will do the same. For most events organisers, this summer was an improvement on the past two but,...