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...
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,...
