by Here Comes Everyone | May 30, 2023
REVIEW: JOE CARRICK-VARTY’S ‘MORE SKY’ By Stella Backhouse If I had to condense Joe Carrick-Varty’s complex new collection More Sky into just a handful of lines, I’d choose a short section from ‘THE CHILDREN’. In the aftermath of his father’s decision to...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 16, 2023
REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’ By Stella Backhouse In poetry terms, the Shropshire town of Oswestry has only one claim to fame – but it is an impressive one: Wilfred Owen, regarded by many as the pre-eminent poet of World War One, was born there in...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 10, 2023
REVIEW: ‘UNKNOWN’ (ANNA ROSE JAMES AND ELIZABETH CHADWICK PYWELL) By Stella Backhouse If you want to really enjoy a poem, how much background info do you need about its subject? Because different people’s minds work differently, a range of responses may...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 3, 2023
Saboteur Awards 2023 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, communities,...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 2, 2023
REVIEW: KATRINA DYBZYNSKA’S ‘SECRETS OF THE DICTATOR’S WIFE’ By Stella Backhouse “He bought it for me but it was he/who spent his life admiring walls./The key is to make them see-through, he says.” I don’t know how much Katrina Dybzynska’s self-described...
