by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 28, 2021
Listing for August 2021: Online Literary Events Hello, August! COVID-19 is still with us, but life has taken a few steps closer to resembling normality. Here in the UK, many Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted. Organisers are juggling various challenges to...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 24, 2021
REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse At first glance, Martin Hayes’ poetry presents as pretty straightforward stuff. Reviewing his earlier collection, The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, I used phrases like “realist...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 17, 2021
WHAT WE’VE LEARNT FROM VIRTUAL GIGS The organisers/hosts of six UK-based poetry events talk to HCE about their experience of keeping their communities going across the Covid-19 pandemic. Read on to find out what had to change, what they’ve missed...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 13, 2021
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOHN BERNARD John Bernard is a spoken word artist and rapper based in Coventry, whose work commentates on social issues, youth empowerment, faith and purpose. He is the founder of BACE (Be A Change Everywhere), an...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 8, 2021
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN Day 1: Bristol I drink the juice from the tinned peaches. Gulp down survivor syndrome, ignore the urge to add cream and lady fingers. Thinking of dessert doesn’t seem right when I can’t smile at you across...
