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Poetry Corner: New Year Sea Poem
TOM GRINDROD hear it hear it before you see it against the rain shoulders hunched blowing out turn the corner and there it is a great roiling wall of liquid…
Poetry Corner: Haiku Sequence
JOHN R PARSONS riding networks of winter trees gibbous moon heads for the open after the tree surgeon I stack his sawn off limbs freak weather a bare cherry in…
Poetry Corner
Mask 2020 BEN FAIRLIGHT Swimming in a mid-September sea I dipped my head under, daringly, Then shook my chill-mangled mop like a dog To wring out London and its modern…
Poetry Corner: War
PETER DALTON What does it mean, we are going to war Such a small word, such a monumental meaning Who is going to war though Those cowardly and fancy worded…
Poetry Corner: PUFFBALL CLOUDS
JEMMIA DE BLONDEVILLE Smoking smouldering chimneys Like old steam engines Seemingly chugging along Through the windswept, and whistling Squally, stormy skies Is it the trees brushing the clouds? Or have…
Poetry Corner: To the thick of the forest
ROY DUFFIELD your black eyes and your ears that do not yield the right grain, they say are too poor to enter here, in this garden party debate, underfed by…
Poetry Corner: The Lips of the Sea
VERNON KEITH FOWLER The lips of the sea Slobber onto the beach And then suck back, Crashing and sucking, crashing and sucking. Each phase has its own sound Like breathing…
Poetry Corner
APROPOS OF NOTHING FELICITY STEPHEN save the great Atlas cedar I walk past most days and Mr & Mrs Magpie hopping beneath a pooling of silvery sea a murmuration at…
Poetry Corner: Nothing Happens!
JEMIA DE BLONDEVILLE On average I delete a minimum Of about 50 emails per day 350 per week About 1,500 per month 18,000 per year And approximately 200,000 per decade…
Poetry Corner
There Is The Sea VERNON KEITH FOWLER There is the sea, the ever-changing sea, And there is the castle, standing on the hill. There is the sea, the sea which…
Poetry Corner
Climb Up JOHN R PARSON These fissured stones and rocks ground in support of our castle’s ageless weathered graffiti, in presence super imposed, moulded soft by light memories of long…
Poetry Corner
Alexandra Park Winter Sequence JOHN R PARSON . like each twig, blade and leaf in the park I enter morning sun cold day in the park plumes of smoke from…
Poetry Corner
The Artisan JEMIA DE BLONDEVILLE The fine end Of a needle That pierces through The soft fabric As it pulls the cotton through Marrying materials Often of a different hue…
Poetry Corner
Cool Gang BEN FAIRLIGHT A surly gang of guys, well cool, Slinks along, hogs the prom – Seven youths with in-your-face faces Scuffing their trainers on the shingle spill. Inflated…
Poetry Corner
In Guestling Wood JOHN R PARSONS how many times this smuggled self has struck its shadowed way past coppices of dark chestnuts where slender stems of hazels sway or scattered…
People of Hastings and St Leonards: Penny Pepper
This week KATHRYN SUTTER met Penny Pepper, author, poet, and disability activist who has called St Leonards home for the past five years. Penny Pepper. Credit: JJ Waller. Like many…
Poetry corner: Old Roar Ghyll…haiku sequence
JOHN R PARSONS Old Roar Ghyllits ancient slabs still shedcreation’s trickle steep timber stepsrise and fall between gladeson the treacherous path clinging to vertical sidesold oaks convey networksof ivy into…
Poetry Corner: Letters
By John R Parsons lettersfrom people that I’ve never mettucked in books, I carry their contentsto bed with me, having found themon shelves in a bookcase where the corridorbends and…
Peace, Passion and Poetry on Hastings MLK Day
By Merlin Betts “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin…
Poetry Corner: My Ship
JOHN R PARSONS My ship’swake flows back to that momentwhen anchor, first pulled with so little effort lay there on the deck waiting until some mooring was acknowledged as safe…
The Poetic Image
Sarah Gomes Harris covered the Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival for HIP earlier this autumn. Here are some of her sketches of those attending. I sketched poets sporadically between chunky intervals.…
Your Writing Could be Published
Poems, stories and book reviews needed If you want to see your work published in these pages, here’s how. HIP Literature is always on the lookout for poems, short stories…
HIP LIT REVIEW
In Love With Hell Hastings Book Launch for Respected Local Writer Long established writer William Palmer has a string of novels, poetry collections and critical reviews for literary journals under…
HIP POETRY NEWS
From the heart of the revolution: Rojava poet to perform in Hastings By Lee Humphries Next Thursday 21 July, award-winning partisan poet Matt Broomfield will visit Hastings’ St Mary in…
HIP POETRY READ
death by the poetry of kindness By Pete Donohue Holy&intoxicated PublicationsSigned limited edition (25) chapbook, £5, €5, $5 REVIEW BY CLAIRE RICHARDSON How do you review poetry? Like many art…
Just What is a Poetry Brothel?
An intrepid HIP reporter went to investigate I should admit to being rather a virgin when it comes to Poetry Brothels. To be honest, I had no idea what to…
HIP POETRY READ
William McGonagall on speed? More Poems From The Boreen By Tom O’BrienPublished by tomtom-theatre, Paperback, £ Review by Pete Donohue Tom O’Brien is an Irish writer, playwright and poet who has…
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Swallowing Paregoric Babies By Pete Donohue Published by Uncollected Press (ML, USA)158 pp. $15 from publisher or £ from Amazon UKAlso available from local bookshops (signed) Review by Nick Pelling…
Get writing for Hastings Week Poetry Competition
Hastings Week Poetry Competition continues to be a successful part of Hastings Week held each year in October. This year, the theme is Love Hastings. The competition is for all…
HIP Poetry Read
Of Few Words By Lucas Howard Whisky & Beards PublishingHardback £15 Review by Pete Donohue Dyslexia and Neurodiversity-friendly Poetry Here is a new poetry collection with a distinct difference. Hastings…
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The Death of a Clown By Tom Bland Review by R J Dent Beneath the striking cover of Tom Bland’s poetry pamphlet, The Death of a Clown, there is a…
Local Poetry Feeds Local Foodbank
Foodbank Britain is the debut poetry chapbook from local poet and community activist Dee Howard. It is subtitled ‘A mixed bag of poems looking at life in serious, fun and…
US Poets at Bookbuster Sheer Poetry on 24th October
This month’s Sheer Poetry open mic event has been shifted from its usual 3rd Thursday to the 4th Thursday in order to accommodate two US poets who will be over…
Hastings Week Poetry Competition
By James Bacon As this competition has been a great success, we continue this year with a theme of the ‘Bayeux Tapestry’. All ages can enter and there are three…
HIP POETRY READ: Terra Incognita By Mary Rothwell
Scriptora (in association with the Society of Women Writers and Journalists), 2019, £7 Review by Jennifer Allan Both title and cover of this long-awaited poem collection are so arresting that…
Shadow Times: New Poetry from Paul A Green
Independently published paperback, £ Prolific local poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, Paul A Green has been on the national and international scene for many years. His work has…
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poetry is feathersBy Pete DonohueAnalog Submission Press 2019, £4 + p&p REVIEW BY ANGELA J PHILLIP Catch a Feather to Take Your Spirit FlyingI am new to Donohue’s poetry but…
Dyslexia, Design & Debut Poetry Collection
Local Poet Lucas Launches Pre-order Campaign Hastings poet Lucas Howard has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his debut collection Of Few Words. A veteran performer and designer by trade, Lucas’…
HIP Poetry Reads – All by (or part by) Martin Appleby
RespairHoly&intoxicated Publications 2019, £5, €5, $5 + p&p three poets 1East London Press 2019, £6 + p&p (SOLD OUT) Punk CrocAnalog Submission Press 2019, £4 + p&p Hastings poet and local litzine…
HIP POETRY READS
Glimpses of Notes – an autobiography in verseBy Alan CorkishLarge format hardback, erbacce-press 2015, £25 scream before they kill your poetryBy Pete DonohueLimited edition chapbook, Holy&intoxicated Publications 2018, £5 Reviews…