by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 14, 2021
REVIEW: MORAG ANDERSON’S ‘SIN IS DUE TO OPEN IN A ROOM ABOVE KITTY’S’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Morag Anderson’s new chapbook Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s is adapted from a report in a Scottish local paper and refers to the “mixed...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 2, 2021
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘THE LAST CUSTODIAN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Stephen Lightbown’s second collection The Last Custodian tells the story of wheelchair-user Luke and his year-long, self-propelled journey across a post-apocalyptic southern...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 24, 2021
REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse At first glance, Martin Hayes’ poetry presents as pretty straightforward stuff. Reviewing his earlier collection, The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, I used phrases like “realist...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 5, 2021
REVIEW: JAY BERNARD’S SURGE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “remember we were brought here from the clear waters of our dreams/that we might be named, numbered and forgotten”: the first line as headlong as a laughing stream; the second as emphatic...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 29, 2021
REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “I am thinking of aurochs and angels,” declares the paedophile Humbert Humbert in the typically grandiloquent closing passage of Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous 1955 novel Lolita. “The...
