by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 6, 2023
REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’ By Stella Backhouse In Lewis Buxton’s 2021 collection Boy in Various Poses, two strands of poetry converse with each other across the divide of the spine. On the left-hand pages hang short rectangular prose poems whose...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 3, 2023
REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’ By Stella Backhouse When it became obvious that French poet and essayist Francis Ponge was a major influence on Suzannah V Evans’ 2021 collection Brightwork, I had to admit my ignorance and Google him. For readers in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2022
REVIEW: CATHY GALVIN’S ‘WALKING THE COVENTRY RING ROAD WITH LADY GODIVA’ By Stella Backhouse Reading poetry about places you’re familiar with is always special; so when I found that Cathy Galvin’s 2019 chapbook Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 16, 2022
REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sometimes – to paraphrase Tammy Wynette – it’s hard to be a man. In the last few years alone, the patriarchal throne has been rocked by #metoo’s exposure of the sickening ubiquity of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 6, 2022
ISSUES IN REVIEWING By Stella Backhouse Reviewing poetry is such a joy. To be invited into someone else’s mind, to be shown their experience of life, how they have interpreted it and what it has taught them is a privilege I never tire of. But writing reviews...
