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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 22, 2022
REVIEW: TINA SEDERHOLM’S ‘THIS IS NOT THERAPY’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The title of Tina Sederholm’s 2021 collection This Is Not Therapy is ambiguous. Is it a warning to the reader? Or a position-statement from the poet on how she feels about her...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2022
REVIEW: ROY MCFARLANE’S ‘LIVING BY TROUBLED WATERS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I hope Roy McFarlane’s new collection Living By Troubled Waters will be taught in schools. It deserves to be – indeed, it needs to be – for a number of important...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 31, 2022
REVIEW: KATY WAREHAM MORRIS’ ‘VIOLET EXISTENCE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “A doing person./Busy, always busy. I don’t [white space] quit”. In late October 2022, as I read those lines from Katy Wareham Morris’s recent pamphlet Violet...
