by Here Comes Everyone | Mar 30, 2019
REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’ KITH BY JO BELL NINE ARCHES PRESS ISBN: 978-0993120107 98 pages/£9.99 Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the concluding lines of the title poem of this, her second collection, Jo Bell observes to those who are her Kith: “I am not who I think I...
by Here Comes Everyone | Feb 17, 2019
REVIEW: BEN ARMSTRONG’S ‘PERENNIAL’ PERENNIAL BY BEN ARMSTRONG KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS ISBN: 978-1912211340 60 pages ____________________________________________________________________________ Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “The whale king extends a flipper, walk...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 29, 2019
FIRE & DUST MEETS: HOLLY WATSON We don’t want to pigeonhole you, so – in your own words, can you tell our readers what you do and what you’re about. I write a blog called The Coventry Conch about growing up on the outskirts of the city in the 90s and early 00s....
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 20, 2019
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,...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 9, 2019
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,...
