As part of Portsmouth BookFest 2020, several S&C regulars plus guests from out of town will discuss their travel-inspired poems, novels, articles and reportage – and how you can use your own experiences to create [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – student at Havant and South Downs College, Zoe Ingram, explores [… read more ]
Most of us ignore those shady emails offering us dubious investment opportunities in far-flung lands. But not the Portsmouth poet Richard Williams, who returns with part two of a decidely dastardly series. December 17th Dear [… read more ]
There’s a popular perception of Portsmouth as a monocultural, jingoistic and reactionary city. Taking a very different angle, University of Portsmouth lecturer and foreign affairs commentator Tom Sykes discusses Portsmouth’s role as a global city [… read more ]
On 13th March, jihadist militants killed 14 tourists in the beach resort of Grand-Bassam in the West African republic of Ivory Coast. This was of course a tragic incident, but it was also isolated and unprecedented. In the spirit of encouraging [… read more ]
Former wine merchant Richard Warburton examines the role alcohol has played in his life – and in the lives of strangers, friends and family members. The theory of ‘irreducible complexity’ cites the eye as an organ [… read more ]
What makes for good travel writing? How do you get into the profession? What practical, ethical and political challenges come with the job? Who are the great travel writers and what can we learn from [… read more ]
While Portsmouth-based author Tom Sykes was in Ivory Coast researching a Bradt guidebook, he and his photographer Alexander Sebley met up with a fêticheur, a traditional African shaman. Alexander and I are led by our translator into a courtyard in Abidjan, Ivory [… read more ]
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