Saboteur Awards: Shortlisted!

Saboteur Awards: Shortlisted!

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...
REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’

REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’

REVIEW: CALEB PARKIN’S ‘THIS FRUITING BODY’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Samantha Walton has already described Caleb Parkin’s 2021 collection This Fruiting Body as “a post-human lyric disco lit with ecological thought”; and as I doubt I can...
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...
REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS: POEMS FROM THE HEART OF THE NHS’ ANTHOLOGY     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   I wasn’t sure I would like this anthology. A collection of “poems from the heart of the NHS” – especially one whose launch coincided with the pandemic’s...