by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 4, 2023
REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’ By Stella Backhouse What does the unconscious feel like? Notice, I’m not asking what it looks like. That’s not because we know what it looks like – probably it doesn’t ‘look like’ anything in the conventional...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 26, 2023
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’ By Stella Backhouse Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
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...
