by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 9, 2024
REVIEW: ‘THE BOOK OF COVENTRY’ By Stella Backhouse In his introduction to Comma Press’s Book of Coventry: A City in Short Fiction, editor Raef Boylan says that what those behind the project were seeking from the eleven short stories showcased here...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 24, 2024
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’ By Stella Backhouse One of the most important strands of twenty-first century revisionist history has been its prioritising of Britain’s slaving and colonialist past to the building of the modern nation. Like...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 23, 2023
REVIEW: COLIN BANCROFT’S ‘KNIFE EDGE’ By Stella Backhouse If the title of Colin Bancroft’s 2022 pamphlet Knife Edge brings to mind a straight line and nothing else, then you’re getting only half the picture. In fact, Knife Edge is already a clever play on...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 10, 2023
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’ By Stella Backhouse 20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 31, 2023
REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’ By Stella Backhouse In a 2020 interview for Belfast-based film-making charity esc films, Irish Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama spoke about the experience of being a gay man in the Catholic church: “I...
