by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 24, 2021
REVIEW: MARTIN HAYES’ ‘OX’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse At first glance, Martin Hayes’ poetry presents as pretty straightforward stuff. Reviewing his earlier collection, The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, I used phrases like “realist...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 5, 2021
REVIEW: JAY BERNARD’S SURGE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “remember we were brought here from the clear waters of our dreams/that we might be named, numbered and forgotten”: the first line as headlong as a laughing stream; the second as emphatic...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 29, 2021
REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “I am thinking of aurochs and angels,” declares the paedophile Humbert Humbert in the typically grandiloquent closing passage of Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous 1955 novel Lolita. “The...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 20, 2021
REVIEW: LUCÍA ORELLANA DAMACELA’S ‘INHERENT’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I flew out of Woolworths the other night and down Castle Gates. Past the library, past the bingo hall that’s still a cinema to me, past the station and onto Chester...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 1, 2021
REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse To the romantics among you, the modern menace of fatbergs, defined by Wikipedia as ‘a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed...
