by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 26, 2023
REVIEW: DAVID MORLEY’S ‘FURY’ By Stella Backhouse Fury, David Morley’s 2020 collection, is a place where language is put to the test – specifically, the test of how important to the achievement of meaning is precise understanding. One way Morley explores this is...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 20, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DEVJANI BODEPUDI You move through the kitchen – an exhalation, no longer seeing the orange and beige you adopted. You miss the smell of red earth but understand tea here – the kettle, a squat matriarch upon the stove. And clinks of...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jun 13, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS THE LANTERN CARRIER I wish I could sing like starlings; Dart within the foliage of lush green leaves. Display the eloquence of nightingales, Awakening the flowers with magical words. I wish I could resonate like music, me,...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 30, 2023
REVIEW: JOE CARRICK-VARTY’S ‘MORE SKY’ By Stella Backhouse If I had to condense Joe Carrick-Varty’s complex new collection More Sky into just a handful of lines, I’d choose a short section from ‘THE CHILDREN’. In the aftermath of his father’s decision to...
by Here Comes Everyone | May 16, 2023
REVIEW: SIMON FLETCHER’S ‘WILD ORCHIDS’ By Stella Backhouse In poetry terms, the Shropshire town of Oswestry has only one claim to fame – but it is an impressive one: Wilfred Owen, regarded by many as the pre-eminent poet of World War One, was born there in...
