by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 4, 2019
THE AFRICA IN MY HOUSE BY ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA Silhouette Press ISBN: 978-0993431524 £6.00/53 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse A few lines into ‘Hyena’, the opening narrative of Andrea Mbarushimana’s short prose and poetry collection The Africa in my House, the...
by Here Comes Everyone | Jan 2, 2019
BEGINNING WITH YOUR LAST BREATH BY ROY MCFARLANE Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027089 £9.99/84 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the violently racist 1970s, a very young Lenny Henry used to tell a joke that went something like this: “Enoch Powell says he’ll...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 15, 2018
FIRE & DUST MEETS LIZ JOLLY Summer 2018 Each night we sweated, restless, disturbed every morning brought another Perfect Day we were disordered, used to sharing rare bright hope of sun by smiling at strangers. Featureless blue and bloating heat made stark...
by Here Comes Everyone | Nov 11, 2018
FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT BLACK TALES FROM THE LEAKING BOOT BY MATT BLACK Iron Press ISBN 978-0995457928 £7.00 /56 pages ‘Write an account of your half-term holiday using complex sentences No, please don’t. Write in simple flames. The joy or horror....
by Here Comes Everyone | Sep 30, 2018
FIRE & DUST INTRODUCES: MIKE PHILIPS Light breaks through the shadows, Silence is filled with words The hours repeat themselves Until they are no longer heard It goes quiet in the darkness While the future waits for the past To sweep away the old empires...