March 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

March 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

March 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events     Move over, Feb – it’s March now! In the UK, the Omicron variant is around but life has taken a few more steps back into normality. However, plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing...
REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’

REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’

REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’ (LIZ BERRY & TOM HICKS)     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     “Maybe you’re the same as me/We see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever…” Half-watching a documentary about 1990s guitar...
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S  ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus’s debut full collection from 2018, is enveloped by poems that take us back to a time before anyone knew he was Deaf. Both poems recall his earliest...
FEBRUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

FEBRUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

    Here comes February! In the UK, the Omicron variant is around but life has taken a few more steps back into normality. However, plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing out to attend gigs, especially those who are vulnerable. If...
REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Something called “the big pushchair” makes several appearances in Threat, Julia Webb’s 2019 collection about growing up in rural Norfolk. The pushchair is not the subject of any...