Review: Theatre at Shoot Festival 2022

Review: Theatre at Shoot Festival 2022

Review: Theatre at Shoot Festival 2022   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     The ‘Performance’ strand of Coventry’s Shoot Festival 2022 concluded at the city’s Belgrade Theatre on Thursday and Friday last week with two very different new plays from woman...
REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’

REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’

REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Samantha Walton has already described Caleb Parkin’s 2021 collection This Fruiting Body as “a post-human lyric disco lit with ecological thought”; and as I doubt I can...
They Exist in the Verses, Too

They Exist in the Verses, Too

They Exist in the Verses, Too: a Mini List of Gods-and-Monsters-Themed Poetry Book Recommendations By Eve Volungeviciute   Half/Life: New & Selected Poems by Jeffrey Thomson This one is a bit of a mix of various themes that complement one another. The poems...
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...