REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

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...
REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’

REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’

REVIEW: JANE COMMANE’S ‘ASSEMBLY LINES’ ASSEMBLY LINES BY JANE COMMANEBLOODAXE BOOKSISBN: 978-1780374086£9.95/64 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse “Sexual intercourse” declared Philp Larkin in his second-most-celebrated opening line “began/ in nineteen sixty three”....
REVIEW: BEN ARMSTRONG’S ‘PERENNIAL’

REVIEW: BEN ARMSTRONG’S ‘PERENNIAL’

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...
Announcement: Contributors to The Rituals Issue

Announcement: Contributors to The Rituals Issue

Announcement: Contributors to The Rituals Issue The Rituals Issue is now available to buy! Click on the image to visit our shop page. In The Rituals Issue (January 2019), “everyone” was…   ADE AWOFADEJU – Protest 10 I am an artist/creative based in north London. I...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PETER RAYNARD

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS PETER RAYNARD

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,...