INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN   “Today, I am black lipstick Wilful, disobedient I am oil slick grin Thick black outline I am bird’s wing I am beast’s flank I am opaque and I am limitless […]” – from ‘Black Lipstick’ by Leanne Moden  ...
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: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASH DICKINSON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASH DICKINSON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASH DICKINSON   STRANGE KEYS BY ASH DICKINSONBurning Eye Press ISBN 978-1-909136-70-0£9.99/101 pages     “on visiting a school, as a ruleremember Indiana Jonesand the Last Crusade when selecting a cup –choose wisely...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROY MCFARLANE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROY MCFARLANE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROY MCFARLANE THE HEALING NEXT TIME BY ROY MCFARLANENine Arches Press ISBN 978-1911027454 £9.99/79 pages Photography credit: Alan Van Wijgerden “[…] Waiting for a meeting, Jim’s memories are stirred by the news of a bomboutside...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN WOODWORMHedgehog Press ISBN 978-1-9164806-2-9£12.00/72+ pages  “I’m not wiping sweat from my foreheadbut cobwebs from the metal ferns; I appear to be drunk on 23rd streethaving forgot the name of my hotel again; I see...