by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 15, 2022
REVIEW: VRON MCINTYRE’S ‘RANDOM TRAIL’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Vron McIntyre’s 2021 collection Random Trail is a tale of shifting perspectives. In ‘Patterns’, the opening poem, McIntyre wonderingly describes their childhood self,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 24, 2022
REVIEW: VICTORIA KENNEFICK’S ‘EAT OR WE BOTH STARVE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse You’d be surprised how popular Audrey Hepburn is among women. I’ve had beauty treatments (all right, laugh if you must) in a room wallpapered with teasing Audreys; and my former...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 5, 2022
REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THE TELLING’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse I sometimes wonder if World War One is alive and well and dwelling among us. Take me. My maternal grandfather was a boozer, probably because it was the easiest way of blotting out...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 22, 2022
REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE BATTLE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse When a poet whose reputation rests largely on his powerful critiques of war and its shattering traumatic legacies produces a new pamphlet entitled The Battle, you’d be forgiven for...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 7, 2022
REVIEW: ZOE BROOKS’ ‘FOOLS’ PARADISE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse After two back-to-back years of news so depressing it’s tempting to disengage from it completely, it feels almost other-worldly to revisit 1989, when we awoke every morning eager for whatever fresh...
