Local writer and poet Emily Priest profiles two upcoming poetry events in this year’s Portsmouth Festivities programme. Portsmouth Festivities is a popular part of the city’s events calendar but this year they return with more [… read more ]
A boy admitted 7th October 1748 When she dropped him at the hospital she tied a yellow ribbon around his tiny wrist with – My name is Andrews written in dark [… read more ]
For Emily and Tim All this time you have been unspooling your lives, like those summer afternoons when we watched your small feet slipping on wet grass, your hands feeling the pull [… read more ]
Elizabeth Palmer has been interviewing various teachers of creative writing to gain insights into their motives, methods and approaches. Lately she spoke to Dr Alison Habens, novelist, poet and Head of Creative Writing at the [… read more ]
By Helen Salsbury I went in search of the plot, in the metaphorical forest, where all the trees looked the same. I went with an older, American Writer, who’d seen it all before. ‘The story,’ [… read more ]
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. I will build a great, great wallaby on our southern bore, and I will have [… read more ]
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 ]
Portsmouth’s annual festival of the macabre, DarkFest, has just kicked off and it features a number of S&C regulars including Christine Lawrence, Matt Wingett, William Sutton, Tom Sykes and Richard Peirce. Georgina Monk looks forward [… read more ]
Breaking the long black silence they shyly call darkness be gone darkness be gone ancestral melodies stir the still damp air light is coming light is coming tiny shining eyes watch [… read more ]
We gathered on the Common were searched at the gate for illicit chairs – no dispensation for me. We watched the ukulele rap duo and waited for the voices our bums on beanbags on rainbow [… read more ]
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