by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 20, 2024
REVIEW: MARTIN FIGURA’S ‘THE REMAINING MEN’ By Stella Backhouse I was born on the day John Profumo asked Christine Keeler for her phone number; in the very hour, quite possibly, that she was driving back to London with Yevgeny Ivanov. Two years...
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 | Apr 8, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MARTIN HAYES Ox loved the fields they gave him meaning when all the leaky barn did was pile hour upon hour upon hour of proof that all he was was an ox the fields allowed Ox to stretch his loins out use his bulk to heave and...
by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 26, 2023
REVIEW: CATHI RAE’S ‘YOUR CLEANER HATES YOU AND OTHER POEMS’ By Stella Backhouse For women of a certain age, the Instagram account of Leicester-based poet Cathi Rae is nothing short of iconic. Her life-affirming two-fingers to the...
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...
