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...
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...
