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...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 25, 2022
REVIEW: STEFAN MOHAMED’S ‘FAREWELL TOUR’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As an older person, Stefan Mohamed’s state-of-England collection, Farewell Tour, makes me feel a bit damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t. I could come over all huffy at casual dismissals...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 11, 2022
REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’ Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse It makes me feel old, this writing poetry reviews. Collections produced by poets much younger than I am are often loaded with allusions that go right over my head. Caleb...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 20, 2022
REVIEW: JO BRATTEN’S ‘CLIMACTERIC’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Climacteric, Jo Bratten’s début pamphlet from Fly on the Wall Press, is a proper poet’s collection. What I mean by that is – it’s highly literary, liberally peppered with couplets, tercets and...
