by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 10, 2023
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’ By Stella Backhouse 20 is quite possibly the shortest title of any collection I’ve reviewed. But even though it consists of just two little characters, the most important part of it is arguably neither of them: it’s the space in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jul 28, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN ‘How to make an angel smile’ (written on a Greek island beach) If there were angels, then this is where they would live, or somewhere like this; not frozen in a gloomy church, stuffed full of...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 10, 2023
REVIEW: ‘UNKNOWN’ (ANNA ROSE JAMES AND ELIZABETH CHADWICK PYWELL) By Stella Backhouse If you want to really enjoy a poem, how much background info do you need about its subject? Because different people’s minds work differently, a range of responses may...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 6, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS VRON MCINTYRE When you look for patterns, there they are. Till I reached forty, when all patterns fell apart, and there behind the patterns, the stunning random beauty of what is, patterned to a point, but much more truth and magic...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 16, 2022
REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Sometimes – to paraphrase Tammy Wynette – it’s hard to be a man. In the last few years alone, the patriarchal throne has been rocked by #metoo’s exposure of the sickening ubiquity of...
