by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 23, 2025
REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘AGIMAT’ By Stella Backhouse What does it sound like, the sound of a train that’s gone? Back in pre-digital days, larger railway stations often featured split-flap departure boards whose flaps, as they rapidly slapped against each...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 28, 2025
REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’ By Stella Backhouse Paul Simon had just turned thirty-four when he released Still Crazy After All These Years. As someone whose own thirty-something heyday is an increasingly distant memory, I could raise a patronising...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2024
REVIEW: VICTORIA KENNEFICK’S ‘EGG/SHELL’ BY Stella Backhouse Victoria Kennefick’s 2024 collection Egg/Shell has two sections: ‘Egg/’ and ‘/Shell’. Outside either of them is a poem called...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 31, 2023
REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’ By Stella Backhouse In a 2020 interview for Belfast-based film-making charity esc films, Irish Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama spoke about the experience of being a gay man in the Catholic church: “I...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 26, 2023
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’ By Stella Backhouse Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
