INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MORGAN BIRCH

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS MORGAN BIRCH

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MORGAN BIRCH   Welcome to Ms Morgan Birch’s Cranial Emporium Where the sordid and the glorious combine and coexist It’s a library, a factory, a playground, a laboratory echoing with oratory and songs that won’t desist Where the...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MERVYN SEIVWRIGHT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MERVYN SEIVWRIGHT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MERVYN SEIVWRIGHT     In the summer of my late teens my best friend’s father fathered me on things I thought men should do. Away in Athens, nested amidst dogwood trees, fields with lavender wildflowers, blended in green tinted meadows...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JULIAN MATTHEWS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JULIAN MATTHEWS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JULIAN MATTHEWS     Julian Matthews is a former journalist and media trainer from Malaysia of mixed-race minority, finding new ways to express himself through poetry, fiction, memoir and essays. His work has been published in...
REVIEW: COLIN BANCROFT’S ‘KNIFE EDGE’

REVIEW: COLIN BANCROFT’S ‘KNIFE EDGE’

REVIEW: COLIN BANCROFT’S ‘KNIFE EDGE’     By Stella Backhouse   If the title of Colin Bancroft’s 2022 pamphlet Knife Edge brings to mind a straight line and nothing else, then you’re getting only half the picture. In fact, Knife Edge is already a clever play on...
REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

REVIEW: HOLLY MAGILL’S ‘20’

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...