by Here Comes Everyone | May 30, 2023
REVIEW: JOE CARRICK-VARTY’S ‘MORE SKY’ By Stella Backhouse If I had to condense Joe Carrick-Varty’s complex new collection More Sky into just a handful of lines, I’d choose a short section from ‘THE CHILDREN’. In the aftermath of his father’s decision to...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 2, 2023
REVIEW: KATRINA DYBZYNSKA’S ‘SECRETS OF THE DICTATOR’S WIFE’ By Stella Backhouse “He bought it for me but it was he/who spent his life admiring walls./The key is to make them see-through, he says.” I don’t know how much Katrina Dybzynska’s self-described...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 11, 2023
REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’ By Stella Backhouse These are the facts: in the 2016 EU referendum, England’s North East registered the third highest leave vote by region; nationally, the older you were, the more likely you were to vote leave; and...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 8, 2023
REVIEW: ROSIE GARLAND’S ‘WHAT GIRLS DO IN THE DARK’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Poetry and astrophysics. If they sound like polar opposites, consider for a moment that polar opposites can only be polar opposites if they’re first situated on the same...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 6, 2023
REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’ By Stella Backhouse In Lewis Buxton’s 2021 collection Boy in Various Poses, two strands of poetry converse with each other across the divide of the spine. On the left-hand pages hang short rectangular prose poems whose...
