by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 12, 2022
REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘RECKLESS PAPER BIRDS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Like swallows perched on a telegraph wire, the poems in John McCullough’s 2019 collection Reckless Paper Birds poems are delicately balanced. Located on the boundaries we...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2022
REVIEW: GENEVIEVE CARVER’S ‘A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO BE CRAZY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The front cover of Genevieve Carver’s 2020 collection A Beautiful Way to be Crazy and other poems from the stage shows a photograph by Alexandra Wallace. On the...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2021
REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME POETRY FROM THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Making poetry about climate crisis and environmental emergency is challenging. Nature is of course an age-old fount of poetic inspiration; but the whole point of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 6, 2021
REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse It’s perhaps appropriate that The Mask, Elisabeth Horan’s chapbook of poetry inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, is published by The Broken Spine Artist Collective. In recent years, Kahlo’s...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 24, 2021
REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse This week, my grateful thanks are extended to the possibly slightly unlikely personage of glamorous TV presenter Melanie Sykes. Sykes’ recent revelation that she has been diagnosed with autistic...
