INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOSEPHINE ALLEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOSEPHINE ALLEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JOSEPHINE ALLEN     YEAR OF FIRE AND ASH BY J. E. ALLEN ISBN 978-1521516-89-8 £10.00 paperback (£0.99 Kindle)/449 pages Poet and novelist Josephine Allen is originally from Nuneaton but “currently resides in Melton Mowbray...
Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short On 3rd May 2018, 21-year-old rapper and poet Alice Short was one of our headliners at Fire & Dust. HCE magazine caught up with Alice after the gig, to ask a few questions…   HCE: Do you prefer to be called a poet,...
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...