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 ]
Portsmouth Harbour
Culture
An American in Pompey: Getting Chummy with the English Seaside
Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. This is part fourteen of his ongoing series, in [… read more ]
Social Issues
Young People’s Voices: A Day in the Life – Being Homeless in Portsmouth
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, Madison Bowley mixes [… read more ]
Memoir
Young People’s Voices: The Dark Waters of Portsmouth
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voice project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – 17 year old student at Havant and South Downs College, [… read more ]
Memoir
Isle of Dinosaurs: A Journey into the Lost World of the Wight
As a Portsmouth-based planetary modeller, David Angus hand-makes representations of the planets and their terrains. In 2001, a childhood dream came true: he was asked to work with the BBC on their Dinosaur Island show. Long ago [… read more ]
Fiction
Orpheus and the Nymphs of the Underworld
To celebrate the recent release of Portsmouth writer William Sutton’s third Victorian mystery with Titan Books, Lawless & the House of Electricity, today we’re proud to present a short story featuring Victorian detective, Sergeant Campbell Lawless [… read more ]
Fiction
Portsmouth Writers’ Season: William Sutton
S&C presents a short story from Portsmouth author William Sutton, new novel, featuring Victorian detective Sergeant Campbell Lawless, known as Watchman because he was formerly a watchmaker’s apprentice. This short story coincides with the launch [… read more ]
Culture
Think You Know Gosport? This Summer, Think Again
Portsmouth University student Eleanor O’Donnell believes Gosport gets a rough deal from locals and visitors alike. Here, she makes a passionate argument for giving our sister town across the water a second look. Now that [… read more ]
Poetry
STAR POems: Point of View
Citadel of crows: dagger-beaked above the motorcycles ranked out front of Mick’s monster burger van. Hop. Skip. Peck up what’s left over; their bare-faced opportunism rising and landing between the wheels. This ridge is [… read more ]
History
How Sid the Fish Became Sid the Coal
Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an eccentric Portsmouth character and the peculiar gifts he would bring. The bitter northeasterly wind had been blowing all day bringing with it the odd flurry of icy sleet. [… read more ]