REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...
REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’

REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’

REVIEW: ROZ GODDARD’S ‘LOST CITY’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse     Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I was researching Roz Goddard’s chapbook Lost City in preparation for writing this review. As part of that, I came across a YouTube...
REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S  ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’

REVIEW: RAYMOND ANTROBUS’S ‘THE PERSEVERANCE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus’s debut full collection from 2018, is enveloped by poems that take us back to a time before anyone knew he was Deaf. Both poems recall his earliest...
FEBRUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

FEBRUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

    Here comes February! In the UK, the Omicron variant is around but life has taken a few more steps back into normality. However, plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing out to attend gigs, especially those who are vulnerable. If...
REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Something called “the big pushchair” makes several appearances in Threat, Julia Webb’s 2019 collection about growing up in rural Norfolk. The pushchair is not the subject of any...