by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 23, 2023
REVIEW: KEVIN REID’S ‘SUITCASE’ By Stella Backhouse During lockdown, I experienced homesickness for the first time in years. Don’t get me wrong: I was at home – what is now my home – the whole time. But I couldn’t stop thinking about the town where I...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 18, 2023
REVIEW: CASEY BAILEY’S ‘PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’ By Stella Backhouse Controversy over the BBC’s not-noticeably-overdue new take on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations has reignited debate about the propriety of casting non-white actors in adaptations of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 13, 2023
REVIEW: OLGA DERMOTT-BOND’S ‘A SKY FULL OF STRANGE SPECIMENS’ By Stella Backhouse Insecurity laps the poetry of Olga Dermott-Bond’s 2021 pamphlet A Sky Full of Strange Specimens. I use the word ‘lap’ advisedly: this is a collection where water and disaster haunt...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 11, 2023
REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’ By Stella Backhouse These are the facts: in the 2016 EU referendum, England’s North East registered the third highest leave vote by region; nationally, the older you were, the more likely you were to vote leave; and...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 26, 2023
REVIEW: CATHI RAE’S ‘YOUR CLEANER HATES YOU AND OTHER POEMS’ By Stella Backhouse For women of a certain age, the Instagram account of Leicester-based poet Cathi Rae is nothing short of iconic. Her life-affirming two-fingers to the...
