INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW MANYIKA

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW MANYIKA

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS ANDREW MANYIKA     Bacon! We never knew you Yours was the sweet savour of a Saturday morning, Scintillating scent transcending space, and perhaps time, Titillating taste teasing tongue and perhaps mind, Placed on plates while I cleared...
April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events

April 2022 Round-up: Virtual Literary Events     Finally, winter is over and April is here! In the UK, life has taken some steps into normality but Covid cases are back on the rise. Plenty of people remain understandably cautious about venturing out to...
REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’

REVIEW: DANIEL SLUMAN’S ‘SINGLE WINDOW’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   The thing about windows is, they operate in two directions. Daniel Sluman’s 2021 poetry/photography collection Single Window (a nod, perhaps, to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear...
REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW: ‘THESE ARE THE HANDS: POEMS FROM THE HEART OF THE NHS’ ANTHOLOGY     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   I wasn’t sure I would like this anthology. A collection of “poems from the heart of the NHS” – especially one whose launch coincided with the pandemic’s...