INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SKYE BEBBINGTON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SKYE BEBBINGTON

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Skye Bebbington While living in Coventry for her studies, Skye Bebbington was a regular at our Fire & Dust open mics. Sadly for the F&D crowd, she moved to Leicester around a year ago so we hadn’t seen much of her for a while –...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW BUTTON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW BUTTON

MELTING CHEESE ON THE COSMIC PIZZA BY ANDREW BUTTON erbacce-press ISBN 978-1-907878-94-7 £10.00/96 pages Andrew Button’s first Fire & Dust headline set was back in December 2016, when he was promoting his poetry pamphlet, ‘Dry Days in Wet Towns’. In April 2018, he...
REVIEW: BEN PARKER’S ‘THE AMAZING LOST MAN’

REVIEW: BEN PARKER’S ‘THE AMAZING LOST MAN’

THE AMAZING LOST MAN BY BEN PARKER Eyewear Publishing ISBN 978-1-911335-39-9 £9.99/ 70 pages   Reviewed by: Raef Boylan   When it comes to poetry, Ben Parker is amazing. And he’s far from lost. Consequently, he had been receiving a lot of praise and respect...
Review: Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera

Review: Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera

Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera: a review by Aarushi Shetty   After being shut for a few weeks for expansion, The Big Comfy Bookshop reopened at the perfect time to host the Fire & Dust open-mic in July. The newly renovated shop was bigger,...
Fire & Dust MEETS DrayZera

Fire & Dust MEETS DrayZera

Reviewed by: Sophie Rowson (HCE Fiction Editor)   New and familiar faces performed at the Big Comfy Bookshop in March. Poignant words of loss and the disappointments of love started off the event. The flames of anger were lit when frustration around politics and...