by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2022
REVIEW: CATHY GALVIN’S ‘WALKING THE COVENTRY RING ROAD WITH LADY GODIVA’ By Stella Backhouse Reading poetry about places you’re familiar with is always special; so when I found that Cathy Galvin’s 2019 chapbook Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 6, 2022
ISSUES IN REVIEWING By Stella Backhouse Reviewing poetry is such a joy. To be invited into someone else’s mind, to be shown their experience of life, how they have interpreted it and what it has taught them is a privilege I never tire of. But writing reviews...
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 | May 3, 2022
Review: Theatre at Shoot Festival 2022 Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The ‘Performance’ strand of Coventry’s Shoot Festival 2022 concluded at the city’s Belgrade Theatre on Thursday and Friday last week with two very different new plays from woman...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 17, 2022
Sab Awards 2022: SHORTLISTED! Sabotage Reviews just announced their Saboteur Awards nominees for 2022. A huge thank you to everyone who voted for Coventry’s Fire&Dust as Best Regular Spoken Word Night – we’ve been shortlisted! So we...
