by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 2, 2019
BEGINNING WITH YOUR LAST BREATH BY ROY MCFARLANE Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027089 £9.99/84 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the violently racist 1970s, a very young Lenny Henry used to tell a joke that went something like this: “Enoch Powell says he’ll...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 30, 2018
All SoulsRachel Burns Collecting leaves for the compost heap, and flat-capped mushrooms on your knees in the wet grass. Stripping elderberries from branches at the roadside to make red ruby wine that will bubble in tall plastic vats in the airing cupboard. Time to...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 29, 2018
Deco DecorumJanina Aza Karpinska As a young man he developed a taste forart deco artefacts – attracted by theirgeometric designs; curvaceous furniture,and dressers that displayed, to good effect,cups and saucers, and bric-a-brac, collecting as much as he couldfrom...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 22, 2018
That Old Black MagicPamela Scott went down tothe woods lastnight, in the dark,moon shining above went down tothe darkest partof the woods,right into theold black heart went down, deepdown, until all thelight was gone, untilthe dark breathed around me went down to the...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 19, 2018
Disowning Her Father, Made EasyAnastasia Jill Her father spent years askingher, “Read the book I wrote.It will tell you everythingyou need to know.” Words tinted like a windowdidn’t wait for her to touch a pagebefore they jumped,with sharpened clawsand indoctrinated...
