by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 9, 2021
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,” moaned Coventry-born Cyril Connolly in 1938 – although as he hadn’t had children at the time, and as he’s barely...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 28, 2021
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 19, 2021
Turns: On Writing a Second Short Story Collection By Sam Reese So you’ve written a short story collection. How do you even begin to write a second? If you watched it from a distance, the journey my second short story collection took to reach publication might...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 17, 2021
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ELIZABETH MCGEOWN On telling a friend I am writing to an insect theme and finding out months later she has assumed I meant maggots But Maggots do not cross my mind at all: the plump rot-seeking them of single mind. Fat...
by Here Comes Everyone | Aug 2, 2021
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘THE LAST CUSTODIAN’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Stephen Lightbown’s second collection The Last Custodian tells the story of wheelchair-user Luke and his year-long, self-propelled journey across a post-apocalyptic southern...
