INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MUSENGA KATONGO

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MUSENGA KATONGO

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MUSENGA KATONGO     We are born with unclenched fists to take what is ours with open paws, So what if I told you that everything the light touches was yours? Everything tapped or pinched by light beams to the tiniest inch is your...
REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’

REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’

REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Started your Christmas shopping yet? Here’s a bit of advice: if you’re giving poetry books this year, maybe don’t choose George Ttoouli’s 2020 volume from ANIMAL ILLICIT...
Virtual Events: October 2021 Round-Up

Virtual Events: October 2021 Round-Up

Listing for October 2021: Online Literary Events   *Cue spooky music* October is here! Sadly, the pandemic is still here as well, but life in the UK has taken more steps closer to resembling normality, with various Covid-19 restrictions lifted. Organisers are...
REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Confession time: during lockdown, when a more-than-once-daily dose of news got too depressing, I started watching twee property show Escape to the Country instead. There was much to enjoy. I could...
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’

REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’

REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,” moaned Coventry-born Cyril Connolly in 1938 – although as he hadn’t had children at the time, and as he’s barely...