by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 14, 2021
REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Confession time: during lockdown, when a more-than-once-daily dose of news got too depressing, I started watching twee property show Escape to the Country instead. There was much to enjoy. I could...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 9, 2021
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,” moaned Coventry-born Cyril Connolly in 1938 – although as he hadn’t had children at the time, and as he’s barely...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 28, 2021
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 14, 2021
REVIEW: MORAG ANDERSON’S ‘SIN IS DUE TO OPEN IN A ROOM ABOVE KITTY’S’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Morag Anderson’s new chapbook Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s is adapted from a report in a Scottish local paper and refers to the “mixed...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 2, 2021
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘THE LAST CUSTODIAN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Stephen Lightbown’s second collection The Last Custodian tells the story of wheelchair-user Luke and his year-long, self-propelled journey across a post-apocalyptic southern...
