Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: review

  • ‘Short’ review

    My latest review for Short Review, SHORT: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, & Other Short Prose Forms l

  • Callout for pre publication reviewers

    So, experimenting with new stuff, my forthcoming book, The Dowry Blade (February 2016) is on NetGalley, a review site for librarians, bookshop owners, book bloggers and professional reviewers. If that is YOU, you can download a review PDF here. It is UNPROOFED, ok, so no comments about typos!

  • What You Are Now Enjoying by Sarah Gerkensmeyer: Review

    Here is my Review of Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s Short Story collection What you are Now Enjoying, on The Short Review

  • Blackheath Count Ory gets 4 stars from What’s On Stage

    That’s a headline a girl like to write. read the whole thing here, but a little taster – …proves once again that the words Blackheath Halls and triumph are synonymous. …easy as it would be to dwell on the delights of the principals, it’s the magnificent chorus that deserves most attention… Opera up close has…

  • New Review of Mosaic of Air

    An absolutely lovely review from Sabotage! High points ‘Mosaic of Air’ is an interesting parable featuring a proto-post-feminist lead, a computer programmer whose programme becomes sentient which surprisingly encases an abortion debate. If you read nothing else in this book you must read ‘Arachne’s Daughters’; this takes apart a myth about Arachne (a human) challenging…

  • More Macbeth Reviews and more unsung heroes

    The Independent have reviewed Macbeth as have Classical Source they both really liked it, and the chorus get special mention. I would just like to mention another set of unsung heroes – the stage managers. Managing sixty amateur chorus members thirty children and all the principles, to say nothing of guns, knives, glasses, trays, beer…

  • Review, and a reading Today!

    My story, Mirror, got a very nice mention in the Sabotage review of Lovers’ Lies. Co-editor Cherry Potts provides a story with overtones of Tennyson and epic loves played out across a lifetime in the surprisingly small and closed world of neighbouring farming estates. ‘Mirror’ takes place with the First World War in the distance,…

  • Keats Festival 2013 opens

    Today is the first full day of the Keats Festival, which is held at Keats House, Keats Grove, Hampstead. I spent yesterday evening at the launch event, listening to the poetry of Jay Bernard (Demon’s in Hell go on strike, in the most visceral meaty bit of poetry I’ve heard in a long time, very…

  • Blackheath Mini Prom – better late than never

    As someone should probably have told me when I was a nipper, don’t promise what you can’t deliver. So here, very late, is my review of the Mini Prom at Blackheath Halls way back on the 5th October.  In my defence I’ve been busy promoting Arachne Press, and I carried the programme around with me…

  • Interview with Joan Taylor-Rowan author of The Bird Skin Shoes

    Interview with Joan Taylor-Rowan author of The Bird Skin Shoes

    I’m posting a series of short snatches of interview with Joan Taylor-Rowan, Author of The Birdskin Shoes.  In this first section Joan talks about the inspiration for the title, and the connections between her own Irish roots and Joey’s escapades in Mexico, by way of religious imagery… its a far reaching book! listen here! joan…