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...
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...
