by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 10, 2021
REVIEW: JACQUELINE SAPHRA’S ‘ONE HUNDRED LOCKDOWN SONNETS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” It’s funny how you forget. If I have any...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 7, 2021
REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Started your Christmas shopping yet? Here’s a bit of advice: if you’re giving poetry books this year, maybe don’t choose George Ttoouli’s 2020 volume from ANIMAL ILLICIT...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 14, 2021
REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Confession time: during lockdown, when a more-than-once-daily dose of news got too depressing, I started watching twee property show Escape to the Country instead. There was much to enjoy. I could...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 9, 2021
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,” moaned Coventry-born Cyril Connolly in 1938 – although as he hadn’t had children at the time, and as he’s barely...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 28, 2021
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience...
