by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 16, 2023
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JOE COOK Joe Cook is a musician, lyricist, music producer and spoken word artist from Birmingham (UK). Joe plays drums and percussion in various musical projects, performing live at venues and festivals across the UK and...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 10, 2023
REVIEW: JULIAN BISHOP’S ‘WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN’ By Stella Backhouse Say out loud the title of Julian Bishop’s new collection We Saw It All Happen and a ghostly question hangs in the after-silence. We saw it all happen….but what did we do? A former BBC...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 6, 2023
REVIEW: LEWIS BUXTON’S ‘BOY IN VARIOUS POSES’ By Stella Backhouse In Lewis Buxton’s 2021 collection Boy in Various Poses, two strands of poetry converse with each other across the divide of the spine. On the left-hand pages hang short rectangular prose poems whose...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 3, 2023
REVIEW: SUZANNAH V EVANS’ ‘BRIGHTWORK’ By Stella Backhouse When it became obvious that French poet and essayist Francis Ponge was a major influence on Suzannah V Evans’ 2021 collection Brightwork, I had to admit my ignorance and Google him. For readers in...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 28, 2022
REVIEW: CATHY GALVIN’S ‘WALKING THE COVENTRY RING ROAD WITH LADY GODIVA’ By Stella Backhouse Reading poetry about places you’re familiar with is always special; so when I found that Cathy Galvin’s 2019 chapbook Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva...
