Poetry
Two Poems for Gaza
Writers and S&C Cultural Editors Sue Harper and Paul Valentine present two poems both entitled ‘Gaza’. Sue Harper Yahweh knocks on your door there is blood in his hair his teeth are [… read more ]
Sue Harper
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
‘Were They Like Us?’: Writing Historical Fiction with Prof Sue Harper
Author, S&C Literary Editor and Emeritus Professor of Film History, Sue Harper, shares some thoughts on writing historical fiction. This is a thorny issue, and it is probably foolhardy to undertake it. I suppose, to [… 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
Advice from a Portsmouth Author: Writing from the Edge
Sue Harper, local author and Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth, presents a series of short essays about writing – how to do it, how it feels, what it means. To [… read more ]
Culture
Blood and Coal by Sue Harper
A University of Portsmouth Emeritus Professor who came from a poor Midlands background has dedicated her newly published memoir to her mother, who inspired her love of art. Veteran journalist Peter Gruner tells us more. [… read more ]
Fiction
All Aboard
By Sue Harper Sarah had signed up to go on a 10-day cruise. She had great misgivings about it: she might be stuck in a floating gin palace with intolerable bores, she might have a [… read more ]
Culture
Wanted: Your Creative Writing
We are thrilled to announce that we have appointed two Literary Editors to the team, Prof Sue Harper and long-time contributor to the site, Paul Valentine. Sue and Paul are keen to read work submitted [… read more ]
Fiction
The Entertaining Angel
By Sue Harper Sarah kept seeing something out of the corner of her eye. It was almost there when she looked aslant, and then it disappeared when she tried to look at it head-on. It [… read more ]