by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 5, 2020
REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET V20 2019 PAMPHLET BY ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA The Gloucestershire Poetry Society £5.00/24 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Andrea Mbarushimana’s new poetry pamphlet V20 – so titled because it won the 2019...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 8, 2019
REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’ THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN BY ANTONY OWEN Knives Forks and Spoons Press ISBN: 978-1-912211-49-4 £18.00/115 pages Reviewed by Fergus McGonigal “My hardest battle is tending to a wound that keeps reappearing”...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 13, 2019
POETRY, CORK, AND A LYING GPS: RAEF AND AYSAR’S VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY By Prabhjot Kaur The Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange returned for its tenth year in August to celebrate the budding talent of its participating poets, a mutual heritage rich in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 20, 2019
REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’ BESHARAM BY NAFEESA HAMID Verve Poetry Press ISBN: 978-1 912565 05 4 £9.99/108 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse What intrigues me most about Nafeesa Hamid’s début collection Besharam (One who is shameless) is the innovative...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 30, 2019
REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’ KITH BY JO BELL NINE ARCHES PRESS ISBN: 978-0993120107 98 pages/£9.99 Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the concluding lines of the title poem of this, her second collection, Jo Bell observes to those who are her Kith: “I am not who I think I...
