When travel writer and Southeast Europe scholar Tom Phillips had a chance meeting with a Bulgarian student in Portsmouth, he couldn’t have predicted all that would happen next… We sat on the grass and smoked [… read more ]
Daniel Malice enjoys feeling a little out of place as he heads along to review Rae Morris at the Wedgewood Rooms. It’s 8 o’clock pm, 11th February 2015. I’m on my way to the Wedgewood [… read more ]
Local students talk to Abigail Lofthouse about their experiences of Islamophobia as she explores the rise of anti-Muslim attitudes in the UK. Islamophobia is a growing issue in the UK. With a rise in EDL [… read more ]
A brand new work of narrative non-fiction by author and educator Conor Patrick I come from a small town in the shadow of a dead volcano on a pine-choked plateau in what is widely considered to [… read more ]
Local campaigner Rosy Bremer revisits her experiences as a feminist activist at Greenham Common’s Women’s Peace Camp. I think it unlikely, if not impossible, that T.S Eliot ever lived at a women’s peace camp at [… read more ]
By Tess Foley We don’t know what you are: door ajar, not from Mars, not Venusian maid, Turn around, let us see that fine dress that you’ve worn, is that right? Wearing white and [… read more ]
In the second of an exclusive series on Portsmouth’s fecund literary heritage, author and historian Matt Wingett discusses the impact of the city on the writer who won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. Rudyard [… read more ]
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