REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   To the romantics among you, the modern menace of fatbergs, defined by Wikipedia as ‘a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed...
MAY 2021: LIST OF LITERARY EVENTS ONLINE

MAY 2021: LIST OF LITERARY EVENTS ONLINE

Listing for May 2021: Literary Events Online   Welcome to May! Although we’re making good progress in the UK with the roll-out of vaccines, COVID-19 is sadly still with us. This means making sure arts events can happen – and safely – is still a...
TINA SEDERHOLM: FINAL WORD

TINA SEDERHOLM: FINAL WORD

Is Your Poem Overwritten or Underwritten? By Tina Sederholm     My first writing teacher, Roland Fishman, used to say, There’s no feeling like having written. Going from a blank page to having a first draft of a poem fifteen minutes later, often something...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS       This is a true story: the management of a branch of IKEA have banned old age pensioners from the store because they’ve been using its restaurant as a free dating club. Senior citizens have been flirting,...
‘FIRST LOOK’ BY EMMA EVANS

‘FIRST LOOK’ BY EMMA EVANS

  First Look By Emma Evans   This piece was written after (and inspired by) attending HCE’s launch event for The Green Issue. (For more information or to purchase your copy, visit our shop.)   Blades of grass gently spike the soles of her feet as she...