REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 10, 2023
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’ By Stella Backhouse 20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 31, 2023
REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’ By Stella Backhouse In a 2020 interview for Belfast-based film-making charity esc films, Irish Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama spoke about the experience of being a gay man in the Catholic church: “I...REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 4, 2023
REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’ By Stella Backhouse What does the unconscious feel like? Notice, I’m not asking what it looks like. That’s not because we know what it looks like – probably it doesn’t ‘look like’ anything in the conventional...REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 26, 2023
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’ By Stella Backhouse Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...