SEPTEMBER 2021 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 2021 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

Listing for September 2021: Online Literary Events   Whoa, it’s September already? COVID-19 is still with us, but life in the UK has taken a few steps closer to resembling normality. Here in the UK, many Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted. Organisers...
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’

REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’

REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ELIZABETH MCGEOWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ELIZABETH MCGEOWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ELIZABETH MCGEOWN       On telling a friend I am writing to an insect theme and finding out months later she has assumed I meant maggots But Maggots do not cross my mind at all: the plump rot-seeking them of single mind. Fat...