Portsmouth-born travel writer and cultural observer Sian Rees recalls a nerve-racking journey across the Mexico-Guatemala border, which led to deeper reflections on the meaning of identity, culture, frontiers and reality. I’m waiting for the tourist [… read more ]
Now resident in Portsmouth, Joan Farnell spent some time living in Pakistan. In this narrative she recalls being unwittingly drawn into a family drama of courtship and competition. I sat on the flat roof gazing [… read more ]
By Anne Paton-Cragg ‘If you book the middle seats we’ll be able to see the subtitles better,’ Fiona suggested. Subtitles? Singaporeans were always hopping between languages and dialects. English, the medium of education, was a [… read more ]
In light of the recent tragedy in the English Channel, local novelist and S&C Community Reporter Helen Salsbury presents a short story reacting to the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in this country. It [… read more ]
Ian Morris bids farewell to 2020 in his last column of the year. What does he remember most about this year, for good and bad? It’s the last column of 2020, a year that began [… read more ]
In the second of a two-part series, Dianna Djokey interviews local resident Adam about his experience of being a migrant, and supply teaching, during the pandemic. Adam’s real name was changed at his request. Dianna [… read more ]
Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 52 and Ian is angry to see some people are not taking social distancing [… read more ]
In this period of fickle weather, Portsmouth resident Joan Farnell reflects on the heat, rain and creepy crawlies of Pakistan, where she used to live. The figurine of a little painted elephant took my thoughts [… 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 ]
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