by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 3, 2023
REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’ By Stella Backhouse When it became obvious that French poet and essayist Francis Ponge was a major influence on Suzannah V Evans’ 2021 collection Brightwork, I had to admit my ignorance and Google him. For readers in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 22, 2022
REVIEW: TINA SEDERHOLM’S ‘THIS IS NOT THERAPY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Tina Sederholm’s 2021 collection This Is Not Therapy is ambiguous. Is it a warning to the reader? Or a position-statement from the poet on how she feels about her...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 26, 2022
REVIEW: SUNDRA LAWRENCE’S ‘WARRIORS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sundra Lawrence packs a lot into her Aryamati Poetry Prize 2021-winning pamphlet Warriors, newly published by Fly on the Wall Press. Although the poems cover just twenty brief...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 1, 2022
REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I was researching Roz Goddard’s chapbook Lost City in preparation for writing this review. As part of that, I came across a YouTube...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 5, 2022
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus’s debut full collection from 2018, is enveloped by poems that take us back to a time before anyone knew he was Deaf. Both poems recall his earliest...
