INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT   “I dow see ya hair bab matted with all that womb gloop. Meybe I see long locks. Dark auburn with a shock of bright purple. at the front. “What ya think Grandad?” And we know it dow really matter what I or anyone else...
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’

REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’

REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’ COLLECTION   ONLY AIR BY STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN BURNING EYE BOOKS ISBN: 978-1911570592 £9.99/32 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Mirrors generally assume a standing observer – a situation that, if you’re not...
REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’   THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN BY ANTONY OWEN Knives Forks and Spoons Press ISBN:  978-1-912211-49-4 £18.00/115 pages   Reviewed by Fergus McGonigal   “My hardest battle is tending to a wound that keeps reappearing”...
REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’

REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’

REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’ BESHARAM BY NAFEESA HAMID Verve Poetry Press ISBN: 978-1 912565 05 4 £9.99/108 pages   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse What intrigues me most about Nafeesa Hamid’s début collection Besharam (One who is shameless) is the innovative...
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...