by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 12, 2022
REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘RECKLESS PAPER BIRDS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Like swallows perched on a telegraph wire, the poems in John McCullough’s 2019 collection Reckless Paper Birds poems are delicately balanced. Located on the boundaries we...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 11, 2022
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS J. VAN RYAN John VanRyan is a Coventry-based poet and musician who describes himself as “appearing on the poet’s podium out of nowhere”. He spent 20 years as a singer/sax player, but that part of his life was...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2022
REVIEW: GENEVIEVE CARVER’S ‘A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO BE CRAZY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The front cover of Genevieve Carver’s 2020 collection A Beautiful Way to be Crazy and other poems from the stage shows a photograph by Alexandra Wallace. On the...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 1, 2022
Fresh year, fresh start – January has arrived! We didn’t expect to still be doing these lists when 2022 came around but, thanks to the Omicron variant, life remains a few steps from resembling normality. Organisers are combatting various...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2021
REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME POETRY FROM THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Making poetry about climate crisis and environmental emergency is challenging. Nature is of course an age-old fount of poetic inspiration; but the whole point of...
