Portsmouth Poetry – Star & Crescent

REVIEW: Nicotine and Napalm – Love, Loss and Bad Romance

1st July 2019

S&C Community Reporter Rosy Bremer reviews Emily Priest’s first published volume of poems and prose, which takes a fresh, young look at age-old themes of love, loss and bad romance. Emily’s book launches in Portsmouth [… read more ]

Celebrating 20 Years of Local Culture: Portsmouth Festivities 2019

12th June 2019

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 ]

News

Hampshire firefighter honoured at film screening

28th September 2019

Last night saw the Portsmouth screening of The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union commemorating 21 firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty during WW2 and honouring another Hampshire firefighter, [… read more ]

News

Why is Google Digital Garage coming to Portsmouth?

26th September 2019

The Good Things Foundation and Google have teamed up to bring Portsmouth residents the Google Digital Garage which will provide free training courses for the people of Portsmouth, contributing editor Paris Ali-Pilling reports. The Good [… read more ]

News

The Future of Journalism in a Festival: S&C at Byline Festival 2019

11th September 2019

S&C recently appeared at the Byline Festival – described as ‘the only festival trying to change the world’ – organised by independent news platform and newspaper, Byline, in partnership with the Frontline Club for journalists. [… read more ]

News

An American in Pompey: Hopping Aboard Britain’s Railway System

9th September 2019

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 seven of his ongoing series exploring [… read more ]

Events

‘Heroes with Dirty Faces’: The Firefighters’ Story Comes to Portsmouth

3rd September 2019

‘The Firefighters’ Story’ documentary comes to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Auditorium on Friday the 27th of September 2019, marking the first centenary of the Fire Brigade’s Union. S&C Contributing Editor, Paris Ali-Pilling, reports. It has been [… read more ]