by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 28, 2022
The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its fourteenth year. Next week, for the second leg of the 2022 exchange, two talented poets – Dean Browne and Victoria Kennefick – will visit Coventry as representatives of Cork (Ireland). In 1958,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 25, 2022
REVIEW: STEFAN MOHAMED’S ‘FAREWELL TOUR’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse As an older person, Stefan Mohamed’s state-of-England collection, Farewell Tour, makes me feel a bit damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t. I could come over all huffy at casual dismissals...
by Here Comes Everyone | Oct 11, 2022
REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘HONEY MONSTER’ Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse It makes me feel old, this writing poetry reviews. Collections produced by poets much younger than I am are often loaded with allusions that go right over my head. Caleb...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 22, 2022
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS JEMIMA HUGHES “You are destined to win this war… because you are the only one in it.” – excerpt from ‘Brother’ in Unorthodox Jemima Hughes is a Birmingham-based performance poet and multi-slam winner who will drag...
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 20, 2022
REVIEW: JO BRATTEN’S ‘CLIMACTERIC’ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Climacteric, Jo Bratten’s début pamphlet from Fly on the Wall Press, is a proper poet’s collection. What I mean by that is – it’s highly literary, liberally peppered with couplets, tercets and...
