by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 20, 2024
REVIEW: MARTIN FIGURA’S ‘THE REMAINING MEN’ By Stella Backhouse I was born on the day John Profumo asked Christine Keeler for her phone number; in the very hour, quite possibly, that she was driving back to London with Yevgeny Ivanov. Two years...
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 9, 2024
REVIEW: ‘THE BOOK OF COVENTRY’ By Stella Backhouse In his introduction to Comma Press’s Book of Coventry: A City in Short Fiction, editor Raef Boylan says that what those behind the project were seeking from the eleven short stories showcased here...
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...
