Poetry
Two More Poems by Tina MacNaughton
Warm Well, you can get it all online now can’t you? they said as Debenhams closed with a sigh Great Aunt Doris visited the café every Saturday I saw her once tray piled high with [… read more ]
creative writing
Culture
Portsmouth City of Culture: Could the Dream Come True?
It could be the biggest boost Portsmouth has ever had – but don’t speak too soon, writes veteran journalist Peter Gruner. Look what happened to nearby Southampton. However, let’s all hope for the best and [… read more ]
Memoir
Stephen and the Posh Girlfriend: A Portsmouth Memoir
This story by Jo Bryant is about her brother Stephen, who was ten years my senior and great fun. He studied at the College of Technology, Portsmouth and then left home at seventeen for RADA [… read more ]
Poetry
Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘The Sorrows’ by Amanda Garrie
There are ten days to go before the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event and tickets are still available. In advance of the event, which is brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the [… read more ]
Poetry
Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Gaza’ by Paul Valentine
There are ten days to go before the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event and tickets are still available. In advance of the event, which is brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the [… read more ]
Poetry
Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Complicit’ by Deborah Shaw
In advance of the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event, brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the University of Portsmouth, the Universities of Sanctuary and Unite the Union, we present a poem by writer and academic [… read more ]
Poetry
Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Gaza’ by Sue Harper
In advance of the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event, brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, staff and students at the University of Portsmouth, the Universities of Sanctuary and Unite the Union, we present a poem [… read more ]
Culture
Making the Dead Speak: A Portsmouth Writer on Identity and Emotion
The big issue in fiction is subjectivity, argues Sue Harper, fiction writer and Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth. And it is the most tricky. You can, of course, write about [… read more ]
Culture
Advice from a Portsmouth Author: How to Write
In the second of local author and Emeritus Professor Sue Harper‘s ruminations on the writer’s craft, she examines pleasure, novelty, influences and structure. That title seems a little presumptuous: after all, one might say, ‘what [… read more ]
Culture
Poems by Philip Jeremy Wilson
Requiem for a Genius* Your mind so quick And slick Faster than a speeding bullet But unable to let Good reason Not become treason Surely I must be the best…. Your mind could not rest [… read more ]