by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 16, 2022
REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sometimes – to paraphrase Tammy Wynette – it’s hard to be a man. In the last few years alone, the patriarchal throne has been rocked by #metoo’s exposure of the sickening ubiquity of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 22, 2022
REVIEW: TINA SEDERHOLM’S ‘THIS IS NOT THERAPY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Tina Sederholm’s 2021 collection This Is Not Therapy is ambiguous. Is it a warning to the reader? Or a position-statement from the poet on how she feels about her...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2022
REVIEW: ROY MCFARLANE’S ‘LIVING BY TROUBLED WATERS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I hope Roy McFarlane’s new collection Living By Troubled Waters will be taught in schools. It deserves to be – indeed, it needs to be – for a number of important...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 31, 2022
REVIEW: KATY WAREHAM MORRIS’ ‘VIOLET EXISTENCE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “A doing person./Busy, always busy. I don’t [white space] quit”. In late October 2022, as I read those lines from Katy Wareham Morris’s recent pamphlet Violet...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 25, 2022
REVIEW: STEFAN MOHAMED’S ‘FAREWELL TOUR’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As an older person, Stefan Mohamed’s state-of-England collection, Farewell Tour, makes me feel a bit damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t. I could come over all huffy at casual dismissals...
