Poetry
In A Moment
By Helen Elliott Salt-spray foam glided over shell and stone with all else still despite the season. I cleansed my lips to taste the day dropped my gaze, blocked out the grey counted colours; speckled [… read more ]
Month: February 2016
Culture
Review: Daughter at the Portsmouth Pyramids
By Mia McTigue-Rodriguez Picture this: a student night out that doesn’t involve sticky floors and anxiety pangs. Sound impossible? Think again. The tranquil electro sounds of Daughter are filling the Pyramids and it’s a world [… read more ]
Culture
The Spirit of Diversity Lives In Pompey
Rosy Bremer reports on her action responding to a recent hate crime at the Madani Academy, Portsmouth. In a moment of idle procrastination recently I did one of those time-wasting internet tests – like what Harry Potter house [… read more ]
History
Portsmouth Writers’ Season: Michael Underwood
For this next post in our Portsmouth Writers’ Season, we turn to the author and architect Michael Underwood and his new book Gunwharf Quays Portsmouth. Spanning almost 500 years the book (available here) examines the history, architecture, conservation and development [… read more ]
Poetry
Your Portsmouth?
By Andrew. “Welcome to your council” reads the dubious sign, And I had not a clue that the thing was all mine! Last time that I checked I had three mobile phones, But surely the [… read more ]
Fiction
Portsmouth Writers’ Season: Christine Lawrence
We continue our Portsmouth Writers’ Season showcasing the best contemporary Portsmouth authors. Set in 1973, Christine Lawrence’s novel Caught in the Web tells the story of Karen, a mental hospital orderly whose obsession with an elderly patient draws her into [… read more ]
Culture
Portsmouth for Beginners: Part II
In the second part of her Beginners’ Guide to Portsmouth – originally published on her blog – Nica Tomasiello introduces newcomers to Portsmouth’s unique climate and cultural scene. #5: How do you find the general [… read more ]
Memoir
A Tory Cobweb Speaks
With due caution – and a small amount of terror – Star & Crescent presents a new regular column by Sir Eugene Nicks QC, KBE, Policy Advisor to the All-Portsea Conservative, Regressive and Imperial Association (established [… read more ]
Memoir
Time to Let You Go
Sindy Prankard tells a moving and very personal story of illness, motherhood and manipulation. We are on our way to see Disney on Ice because my son’s girlfriend, for whom he bought the tickets, brutally dumped him just [… read more ]
News
Portsmouth Tory Dirty Tricks – A Degrading Episode
Shelagh Simmons reflects on the Tory smear plan revelations and concludes that the public deserves a lot more than the feeble excuses and hypocritical counter-arguments offered so far. Everyone knows that politics can be a nasty business and we have seen over [… read more ]