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...
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...
