CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘PATIENCE’ BY RC deWinter

CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘PATIENCE’ BY RC deWinter

  Patience RC deWinter some days nothing works but the medulla your heart beats you breathe and it feels like an accomplishment yet there is an elegance in the silence of the dark as if the world is about to reveal a secret i am listening   RC deWinter’s...
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: HCE MEETS USAAMA MINHAS

INTERVIEW: HCE MEETS USAAMA MINHAS

AN INTERVIEW WITH USAAMA MINHAS By Prabhjot Kaur     Usaama Minhas is a poet and MC based in London. He started writing in his teens whilst going to school in Boston (Lincolnshire, UK) before leaving to spend a year at an actor training conservatory for...
SPECIAL GUEST REVIEW: BILLY LIAR

SPECIAL GUEST REVIEW: BILLY LIAR

SPECIAL GUEST REVIEW: BILLY LIAR   This August marks sixty years since the publication of Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse’s much-loved novel of inter-generational strife. Here, guest reviewer Stella Backhouse reassesses the book and asks whether it still has...