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,...
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 | Dec 17, 2018
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS CASEY BAILEY ADJUSTMENT BY CASEY BAILEY Verve Poetry Press ISBN 978-1912565023 £9.99/78 pages I have mastered the art of finding humour in my failure. I have come to know we all have gifts, that we all have limitations, and some...
by Here Comes Everyone | Dec 16, 2018
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANTONY OWEN THE NAGASAKI ELDER BY ANTONY OWEN V-Press ISBN 978-0-9935508-2-9 £9.99/64 pages “Shocking to read, but at the same time strangely beautiful and gentle […] relevant to our times, hard hitting, and brilliantly...
