INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DAVE PITT   “I dow see ya hair bab matted with all that womb gloop. Meybe I see long locks. Dark auburn with a shock of bright purple. at the front. “What ya think Grandad?” And we know it dow really matter what I or anyone else...
REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S V20 PAMPHLET   V20 2019 PAMPHLET BY ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA The Gloucestershire Poetry Society £5.00/24 pages   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Andrea Mbarushimana’s new poetry pamphlet V20 – so titled because it won the 2019...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS LEANNE MODEN   “Today, I am black lipstick Wilful, disobedient I am oil slick grin Thick black outline I am bird’s wing I am beast’s flank I am opaque and I am limitless […]” – from ‘Black Lipstick’ by Leanne Moden  ...
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...