Memoir
My Coming Out Story – Part I
In part I of a 3-part series, Susie Edmonds relates her experience of growing up as a young gay woman and the long journey to coming out. The story of coming out is part of [… read more ]
Memoir
Memoir
The Practically Unparentable
Sindy Prankard tells the poignant tale of her struggle to raise a teenager suffering from mental ill health – and how, despite everything, she is prouder of him than ever. When the first glow of [… read more ]
Culture
Disney, Coastguards and Light Shows: Southsea’s Magical Past
In this charming memoir, writer and actor John Bartlett describes how the Southsea we know today has changed so dramatically from the Southsea he used to visit as a boy. When I was small, I [… read more ]
Culture
The School Teacher: A Tale of Portsmouth Pranks Past
Playwright and songwriter John Bartlett re-tells a darkly comic anecdote his grandmother recounted to him about her school days in late Victorian Portsmouth. “With moi hand on meself what ‘ave oi ‘ere? This is moi sweaty-boxer moi souvenir [… read more ]
Culture
Feeling Like a Monarch
Writer and artist Gareth Rees sometimes feels alienated from his home town… until he makes his way to the delightful Rock Gardens and their language of fragrance. Population-wise Portsmouth is of course a city, but the [… read more ]
Culture
A Map of the Solent
In this absorbing work of psychogeography, writer and dramatist Tom Phillips draws some little-known connections between Portsmouth and other parts of Britain and Europe. You can’t beat a good map. That’s what I say. Right now, [… read more ]
Memoir
I Don’t Go Outside
Recent graduate Daniel Malice presents a brief justification for staying indoors with one’s own company. It’s the end of September and I should be starting university again. Shouldn’t I? No, I don’t want to do [… read more ]