by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 18, 2021
REVIEW: TOM SASTRY’S ‘A MAN’S HOUSE CATCHES FIRE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse While I was preparing to review Tom Sastry’s clever, oblique 2019 collection A Man’s House Catches Fire, I chanced on an article about ‘lockdown-induced brain...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 23, 2021
REVIEW: ROMALYN ANTE’S ‘ANTIEMETIC FOR HOMESICKNESS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The day after the EU referendum, as frantic news reporters scrambled round unglamorous northern towns conducting panicky vox pops with random pedestrians in an attempt to...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 9, 2021
REVIEW: KATY WAREHAM MORRIS’ ‘MAKING TRACKS’ MAKING TRACKS BY KATY WAREHAM MORRIS V. PRESS ISBN: 978-1838048808 £6.50/36 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Towards the end of Middle England, the third book in Jonathan Coe’s eponymous trilogy, Benjamin...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 28, 2021
REVIEW: JOELLE TAYLOR’S ‘SONGS MY ENEMY TAUGHT ME’ SONGS MY ENEMY TAUGHT ME BY JOELLE TAYLOR OUT-SPOKEN PRESS ISBN: 978-0993103896 £10.00/60 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse What is the purpose of poetry? To tell the poet’s story? To convey something beautiful...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 15, 2021
REVIEW: ANDY WILLOUGHBY’S ‘TOUGH’ TOUGH BY ANDY WILLOUGHBY SMOKESTACK BOOKS ISBN: 978-0954869151 £5.99 / 78 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Ghosts stalk the pages of Andy Willoughby’s 2004 collection Tough. They catch you in the opening...
