by Here Comes Everyone | May 26, 2022
REVIEW: SUNDRA LAWRENCE’S ‘WARRIORS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sundra Lawrence packs a lot into her Aryamati Poetry Prize 2021-winning pamphlet Warriors, newly published by Fly on the Wall Press. Although the poems cover just twenty brief...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 20, 2022
REVIEW: TOM SASTRY’S ‘YOU HAVE NO NORMAL COUNTRY TO RETURN TO’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As a regular poetry critic, something I’m well-placed to reveal to you is that identity is the pre-eminent preoccupation of modern times. Tackling both his...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 11, 2022
REVIEW: SAM J GRUDGING’S ‘THE BIBLE II’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Your own personal Jesus/Someone to hear your prayers/Someone who’s there.” In 1990, Martin Gore, principal song writer of 80s synth-pop band Depeche Mode, told Spin Magazine that the band’s...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 3, 2022
Review: Theatre at Shoot Festival 2022 Reviewed by Stella Backhouse The ‘Performance’ strand of Coventry’s Shoot Festival 2022 concluded at the city’s Belgrade Theatre on Thursday and Friday last week with two very different new plays from woman...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 26, 2022
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’ ‘ALL THE NAMES GIVEN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “You never see X and Y in the same room at the same time” is an ambiguous phrase. It could mean X and Y can’t stand each other; paradoxically, it could also mean the...
