A group of authors will come together to discuss Portsmouth as a place to visit and reflect on the realities of travel and place writing at local, national and international levels. The discussion will be [… read more ]
We present a poem by S&C regular contributor Richard Peirce about his third arrest under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for a peaceful protest in Oxford, in which he held a sign opposing [… read more ]
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 [… read more ]
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 ]
To celebrate this year’s Portsmouth BookFest 2020, S&C Contributor Amanda Garrie writes about her experience of going to one of the events, ‘An Evening of Poetry’. T’Articulation took themselves to 113 Art House Coffee on Monday 17th [… read more ]
Regular readers of S&C will be aware that our much-loved Contributing Editor Gareth Rees sadly passed away in April of last year. Portsmouth-based poet Richard Peirce has written this poignant tribute in verse to Gareth. [… 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 ]
A group of local writers have taken over two annual events for Portsmouth residents who don’t love to love on Valentine’s Day. Co-organiser Christine Lawrence reports. After the success of previous years’ Portsmouth Bookfest, a [… read more ]
As everyone returns to the office in various states of unwillingness, this week we cling desperately to 2015 a little longer and revisit some of our favourite articles from our first year. First up – some of [… read more ]
Dear Flick Drummond, I write to ask you to vote against any Commons motion to sanction the extension of airstrikes into Syrian territory. I believe that I echo the voices of many people around the [… read more ]
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