Back to Life by Michael Vince Ben North Each encounter takes a host

Each encounter takes a host of characters to the brink of epiphany – sometimes they’ll burn bright

who Evans's regular readers will recall from her earlier narrative Petrol (2012)

Jen Campbell’s first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales

The deftly lyrical poems in his second collection illuminate a night world of disturbed sleep and half dream

was published in 1926

Back to Life by Michael Vince Ben North Each encounter takes a hostThe idea of things coming back to life runs through all three parts of this collection. The first section explores the contemporary world of the pandemic lockdown period through interpretations of experiences, many of them limited to photographs and video, others stimulated by reading. This section ends with the return to life of the neighbourhood. The second section is a further exploration of neighbourhood, with poems which bring back to life people