by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 13, 2023
REVIEW: OLGA DERMOTT-BOND’S ‘A SKY FULL OF STRANGE SPECIMENS’ By Stella Backhouse Insecurity laps the poetry of Olga Dermott-Bond’s 2021 pamphlet A Sky Full of Strange Specimens. I use the word ‘lap’ advisedly: this is a collection where water and disaster haunt...
by Here Comes Everyone | Apr 11, 2023
REVIEW: HARRY GALLAGHER’S ‘THERE IS AN ENGLAND’ By Stella Backhouse These are the facts: in the 2016 EU referendum, England’s North East registered the third highest leave vote by region; nationally, the older you were, the more likely you were to vote leave; and...
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 | Feb 28, 2023
REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’ By Stella Backhouse I was not orphaned at age ten but my father was; and even though I have since childhood mourned the grandparents I never met and felt the gaping void that was their absence, I...
