by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2024
REVIEW: VICTORIA KENNEFICK’S ‘EGG/SHELL’ BY Stella Backhouse Victoria Kennefick’s 2024 collection Egg/Shell has two sections: ‘Egg/’ and ‘/Shell’. Outside either of them is a poem called...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 11, 2024
Review: Ricky Ray, The Soul We Share (Fly on the Wall Press, 2024) By Meg Freer The Soul We Share, a new collection by American poet, essayist, and self-described mystic Ricky Ray, takes as its impetus his shared life with his beloved dog Addie, who...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 24, 2024
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’ By Stella Backhouse One of the most important strands of twenty-first century revisionist history has been its prioritising of Britain’s slaving and colonialist past to the building of the modern nation. Like...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 23, 2023
REVIEW: COLIN BANCROFT’S ‘KNIFE EDGE’ By Stella Backhouse If the title of Colin Bancroft’s 2022 pamphlet Knife Edge brings to mind a straight line and nothing else, then you’re getting only half the picture. In fact, Knife Edge is already a clever play on...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 10, 2023
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’ By Stella Backhouse 20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...