by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 9, 2019
REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’ ASSEMBLY LINES BY JANE COMMANEBLOODAXE BOOKSISBN: 978-1780374086£9.95/64 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Sexual intercourse” declared Philp Larkin in his second-most-celebrated opening line “began/ in nineteen sixty three”....
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 17, 2019
REVIEW: BEN ARMSTRONG’S ‘PERENNIAL’ PERENNIAL BY BEN ARMSTRONG KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS ISBN: 978-1912211340 60 pages ____________________________________________________________________________ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “The whale king extends a flipper, walk...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2019
REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’ DIRTY LAUNDRY BY DEBORAH ALMA Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027416 £9.99/80 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse For me, the turning point of Deborah Alma’s debut collection Dirty Laundry comes near the end. Until that point,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 4, 2019
THE AFRICA IN MY HOUSE BY ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA Silhouette Press ISBN: 978-0993431524 £6.00/53 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse A few lines into ‘Hyena’, the opening narrative of Andrea Mbarushimana’s short prose and poetry collection The Africa in my House, the...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 2, 2019
BEGINNING WITH YOUR LAST BREATH BY ROY MCFARLANE Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027089 £9.99/84 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the violently racist 1970s, a very young Lenny Henry used to tell a joke that went something like this: “Enoch Powell says he’ll...
