Saboteur Awards 2022

Saboteur Awards 2022

We’d love to have your vote(s)…     Sabotage Reviews just announced it’s that time of the year again: The Saboteur Awards! In the world of independent creatives, this is a rare opportunity to celebrate the people, brands and categories that...
REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’

REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’

REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I was researching Roz Goddard’s chapbook Lost City in preparation for writing this review. As part of that, I came across a YouTube...
REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’

REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’

REVIEW: ‘THE DERELICTION’ (LIZ BERRY & TOM HICKS)     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     “Maybe you’re the same as me/We see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever…” Half-watching a documentary about 1990s guitar...
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S  ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus’s debut full collection from 2018, is enveloped by poems that take us back to a time before anyone knew he was Deaf. Both poems recall his earliest...
REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Something called “the big pushchair” makes several appearances in Threat, Julia Webb’s 2019 collection about growing up in rural Norfolk. The pushchair is not the subject of any...