Landings, the new poetry collection by local writer and S&C regular Richard Williams, focuses on Portsmouth daily life and the memories that shape a city. Georgina Monk tells us more. Many of the poems in [… read more ]
Community reporter and S&C reviewer Paul Valentine attended the book launch for Clare Best’s new memoir The Missing List and finds a masterfully written and powerful reflection on abuse. I’ve read a lot of memoirs [… read more ]
Community reporter, Paul Valentine, reviews the recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance, Beethoven Five, at the opening concert of their returning programme at the Guildhall. All is marketing these days, but not in terms of [… read more ]
It’s late afternoon, summer light fills Portsmouth Cathedral, choral song sounds through the air and the Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society’s (PHAS) annual exhibition is in full swing. Lucy Brown reports on this enchanting and [… read more ]
Reclaim the News team member Rosy Bremer reflects on the commercialisation of higher education as she interviews Eleanor Martin of Khayaal Theatre following a recent symposium at the University of Portsmouth. A woman with very [… read more ]
Part photo essay and part review, local author Julia Davey writes about a series of performances from the over 55s New Theatre Royal Players (NTR Players) and New Theatre Royal Dancers (NTR Dancers) on their [… read more ]
Siobhan Coleman reviews the official launch of a new Portsmouth creative business, Paint Chill Co, and discovers the joys of mixing art with alcohol. At ten o’clock on Thursday evening, the official launch party for [… read more ]
The Mystery Fest conference of crime and mystery literature took place at Portsmouth Central Library on 2nd June 2018. Julia Davey gives a thumbs up to the day’s events and looks forward to next year’s in [… read more ]
S&C reviewer and reporter Emily Priest, in her latest vlog series, reviews some of her most and least favoured books. In this episode, she looks at the controversial classic, American Psycho, published in 1991 by [… read more ]
S&C reviewer and reporter Emily Priest launches a new series of vlogs reviewing some of her most and least favoured books. In this first of the series she looks at the controversial novel The Incest [… read more ]
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