by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 30, 2021
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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 28, 2021
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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 17, 2021
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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 14, 2021
REVIEW: MORAG ANDERSON’S ‘SIN IS DUE TO OPEN IN A ROOM ABOVE KITTY’S’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Morag Anderson’s new chapbook Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s is adapted from a report in a Scottish local paper and refers to the “mixed...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 2, 2021
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘THE LAST CUSTODIAN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Stephen Lightbown’s second collection The Last Custodian tells the story of wheelchair-user Luke and his year-long, self-propelled journey across a post-apocalyptic southern...