by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 23, 2025
REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘AGIMAT’ By Stella Backhouse What does it sound like, the sound of a train that’s gone? Back in pre-digital days, larger railway stations often featured split-flap departure boards whose flaps, as they rapidly slapped against each...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 28, 2025
REVIEW: CAROLINE BIRD’S ‘AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE’ By Stella Backhouse Paul Simon had just turned thirty-four when he released Still Crazy After All These Years. As someone whose own thirty-something heyday is an increasingly distant memory, I could raise a patronising...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 27, 2024
REVIEW: STANLEY IYANU’S ‘MY ACHILLES’ By Stella Backhouse Its title suggestive of both identification and vulnerability, Stanley Iyanu’s 2023 pamphlet My Achilles celebrates popular poetry’s role in both revealing the inner reality of outwardly...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 18, 2024
REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’ By Stella Backhouse Though it includes no poems on the subject, something about Pen Kease’s 2024 collection This Side of the Sea conjured up mental pictures of ploughmen, harrowing fields with horses under...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 11, 2024
REVIEW: ALISON BINNEY’S ‘OTHER WOMEN’S KITCHENS’ By Stella Backhouse Alison Binney’s 2021 Myslexia Award-winning pamphlet Other Women’s Kitchens is a refreshingly relatable description of one woman’s journey from...
