INTERVIEW: HCE MEETS USAAMA MINHAS

INTERVIEW: HCE MEETS USAAMA MINHAS

AN INTERVIEW WITH USAAMA MINHAS By Prabhjot Kaur     Usaama Minhas is a poet and MC based in London. He started writing in his teens whilst going to school in Boston (Lincolnshire, UK) before leaving to spend a year at an actor training conservatory for...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PETER RAYNARD

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PETER RAYNARD

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PETER RAYNARD PRECARIOUS BY PETER RAYNARD Smokestack Books ISBN 978-0-9957675-9-1 £7.99/95 pages “Young Timmy knows how to enjoy himself, he cleans double breasted windows, or checks under the sink for some scantily clad plumbing,...
REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’

REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’

REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’ DIRTY LAUNDRY BY DEBORAH ALMA Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027416 £9.99/80 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse For me, the turning point of Deborah Alma’s debut collection Dirty Laundry comes near the end. Until that point,...
RITUALS POETRY: ‘ALL SOULS’ BY RACHEL BURNS

RITUALS POETRY: ‘ALL SOULS’ BY RACHEL BURNS

All SoulsRachel Burns Collecting leaves for the compost heap, and flat-capped mushrooms on your knees in the wet grass. Stripping elderberries from branches at the roadside to make red ruby wine that will bubble in tall plastic vats in the airing cupboard. Time to...