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 ]
Christine Lawrence journeys to North End and discovers a compelling and powerful autobiography from local author, Steven George. It’s a wet January morning, I’m sat in Café Nut in North End, planning to write about [… read more ]
Southsea-based novelist William Sutton reports on the most writer-friendly eateries in Portsmouth. “Are there any Southsea cafes good for writing in?” asked a post on Portsmouth Writers Hub Facebook page. I was astonished by the [… read more ]
Pompey Street Finds by Abigail Gilchrist and Jo Willoughby of Stair/Slide/Space.
Sarah Cheverton reports on LGBT Pride, which comes to Portsmouth’s Victoria Park on Saturday 20th June 2015, twelve years since the last Pride event was held in the city and the first time a major, [… read more ]
This is the first in a series of features in which local author and publisher Matt Wingett explores Portsmouth’s relationship to a long line of writers dating back to the Victorian era. In this issue, [… read more ]
In this regular feature, we select ten stories about Portsmouth taken from the national media. Huffington Post, ‘History is Now’ at Hayward Gallery searches for British identity Portsmouth journalist, Christine Lord, and her campaign for [… read more ]
When superstar fantast Neil Gaiman returned to his hometown of Portsmouth, Sarah Cheverton caught up with him for an exclusive interview. When I meet Neil Gaiman, he is sitting on a wooden bench by Canoe Lake [… read more ]
Daniel Malice reviews Snowpiercer a little-seen, must-see sci-fi classic of world cinema. John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, and Jamie Bell are among the last people left alive on Earth, which has become a frozen wasteland [… read more ]
Writer and academic Dave Allen shares his twin lifelong loves for local music and cricket, and explains how his own life story has dovetailed with the recent history of Portsmouth. I’m 65. I find it to be an age around which [… read more ]
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