by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 28, 2023
REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’ By Stella Backhouse I was not orphaned at age ten but my father was; and even though I have since childhood mourned the grandparents I never met and felt the gaping void that was their absence, I...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 8, 2023
REVIEW: ROSIE GARLAND’S ‘WHAT GIRLS DO IN THE DARK’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Poetry and astrophysics. If they sound like polar opposites, consider for a moment that polar opposites can only be polar opposites if they’re first situated on the same...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 3, 2023
REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘PANIC RESPONSE’ By Stella Backhouse John McCullough’s 2022 collection Panic Response is a delicate and moving evocation of grief, mental breakdown and eventual re-emergence. Although primarily a frank and deeply personal memoir,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 18, 2023
REVIEW: ELIZABETH MCGEOWN’S ‘COCKROACH’ By Stella Backhouse There are a number of reasons not to read Elizabeth McGeown’s 2022 collection Cockroach. If slugs, snakes, maggot-infested dead birds, creepy-crawlies in general and the titular arthropod...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 10, 2023
REVIEW: JULIAN BISHOP’S ‘WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN’ By Stella Backhouse Say out loud the title of Julian Bishop’s new collection We Saw It All Happen and a ghostly question hangs in the after-silence. We saw it all happen….but what did we do? A former BBC...
