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BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right By Terry Eagleton Published by Verso Books, 2022, paperback, rrp £,available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton With our…
When Miss Weaver met the Wicked Mr Joyce
A New Exhibition, ‘Yoolyses,’ opens at Electro Studios, on 16 June, to celebrate James Joyce and the woman who made his masterpiece possible. James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, regarded in Britain…
Calling out around the world
Welcome to the International Composers Festival 2022 The International Composers Festival – the only event of its kind in the world – will be returning between May 20 and 22,…
Who is your Queen?
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Celebrating the royal family can be a bit divisive. We are not all monarchists, so the Jubilee may bring some people out in republican…
Bricolage Writ Large
By Nick Pelling and Helen Murphy Georgie Wheeler is an intriguing artist. Her work is painterly and meticulous but also almost rude and in your face. Her playfully disturbing visions…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Hastings Town Centre Heritage Trail Published by Hastings & St Leonards Society, 2022, pamphlet, rrp £4Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Sometimes Hastings New Town seems…
HIP LIST NEWS
Silverhill Press Book and Zine Launch Event Local independent publishers Silverhill Press have launched new art books by Julian Anderson, Malcolm Glover, Rod Morris, Stuart Griffiths, Peter Quinnell, Ian Land,…
French Connection
Yasmin Aishah has come across a letter to the children of Hastings apparently by Marie de France – a writer living in England between about 1140–1200. She was famous for…
State of the Arts
To mark the 200th edition of the Hastings Independent we looked back through the archives and also askeda number of creatives in the town to contribute a few paragraphs about…
Time for a Picnic
By Sonny Levitt It was through my mum – a fount of knowledge for all things Hastings – that I first heard of Picnic. So, I cycled over and peered…
HIP LIT NEWS
Real-life drama inspires Hastings crime author’s latest novel Graeme Hampton’s fourth novel in the popular Denning & Fisher crime series is published by Hera Books this month. Run For Cover…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Winston Churchill: His times, his crimes By Tariq AliPublished by Verso, 2022, hardback, rrp £25Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton ‘A most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace…
Flower Power
Kathryn Sutter speaks to environmental artist Laura Ribbons and views her work in the old town. Laura Ribbons is currently showcasing her first solo exhibition since the pandemic at the…
Still Not Standing Still
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling A major retrospective for artists can be both a wonderful and a daunting thing. It is as if your whole artistic life will be…
THEATRE REVIEW
An Offer You’d Rather Refuse By Jo Broughton Gangster Number 1 is a fully committed dive deep into a Kray-like gangster’s life and the underbelly of London that was his…
The Word is Music
Ben Thompson explains how the improbable DJ pairing of snooker’s Steve Davis and avant-garde guitarist Kavus Torabi helped establish the template for an innovative literary/music event he’s running in St…
New Model Arty
Gareth Stevens discovers how emerging younger artists are being helped by an agile collective on a Bexhill industrial estate. Flatland Projects is one of the increasing number of community based…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Half-Earth Socialism By Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass Published by Verso, 2022Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Recommended by Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow…
ARTS DIARY
Demons and Lust Hastings Rocks International Film Festival runs from 22 to 24 April at St Mary in the Castle and the Electric Palace, celebrating filmmaking talent with a focus…
Picture This
By Nick Pelling The first ever Hastings Rocks International Film Festival (HRIFF) opens this April. It runs from 22 to 24 of the month at St Mary in the Castle,…
Springtime for Hastings
On what turned out to be not only the final Thursday of March but also the coldest day of the month, the people of Hastings and St Leonards still came…
Drawing the Line Somewhere
Avid readers of this publication will know that we have been supporting the erotic postcards exhibition at 1200 Postcards on Queens Road, for which crime we have apparently fallen out…
HIP LIT NEWS
Local Young Writer Wins Cup By Hastings Young Writers Group Lila Katz, age 11, has become the first ever winner of the Anne Hooker cup. This annual award recognises the…
You Know Me
By Nick Pelling Just occasionally I like to hang out with royalty. Particularly when the person in question is reggae royalty. Henry ‘Matic’ Tenyue probably has the most impressive dub-line…
Contemporary People Power?
Kent Barker worries that Council ownership of the Hastings Contemporary could be a retrograde stepfor local people. Is Hastings Borough Council about to become the owner of the Jerwood/Hastings Contemporary…
The Art of War
Contributions by Kate Burton, Susan Diamond and others. The range of this town’s responses to the Ukrainian crisis has been pretty impressive. In a short space of time there have…
Ever Fallen in Love with Something?
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Have you ever been seduced by the look of something? Felt the strange, secret thrill of optical desire? Not the yearning to buy, just…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Unwritten Rule By Stephen Green, Thomas Legg, and Martin DonnellyPublished by Haus Publishing, 2021, paperback, £ at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Here is another short volume…
A Gentle Play about Murder
The 20th Century seems to feature prominently in the Stables spring programme with two new plays and a revival all set in the last century. The Seventh Swimmer and Here…
Jazz Experience
By Gareth Stevens Near Jazz Experience were never a consequence of premeditation. Like the improvised set that they performed at Kino-Teatr on a March Saturday, the band just happened. Just…
Neither Here Nor There
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling If you have ever stood at the shore’s edge and stared at the waves and the endless grey sea, you might appreciate Seamus Heaney’s thought…
Exploring The Diddakoi
The 2022 A Town Explores A Book festival centres around Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on the 50th anniversary of its publication. Festival director, Gail Borrow outlines what’s in store. A…
Kamikaze Komedy
By Lucy Pappas, Susie Barnard, Sam Summerscales and Vicki Jones The stage was set for two hilarious comedy acts, Josephine Lacey and Tony Law. The audience was welcomed by a…
Meeting the Old Master
Gareth Stevens spends an afternoon with avant garde composer George Newson. Stone-in-Oxney sits atop an ‘island’ hill in the otherwise relentless flatland of the Romney Marsh. The village is the…
ATY DIARY
ROSSETTIS IN LOVE A small semi-permanent exhibition entitled Rossettis in Love begins in St. Clement’s Church on Saturday, 26 March at 11 am. It will be opened by Jenny Ridd,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Self and Society Essays by various authors Published by Haus Publishing, 2021, paperback, £ at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Here we have a short volume from…
The Fat is Back!
CREDIT: Mark Richards After almost two years of hibernation, Fat Tuesday blasted back into Hastings in a blaze of rock, rhythm and revelry. It included the Umbrella Parade, Preservation Sunday,…
An Artist in Everyone
Iconic St Leonards-based artist, model and muse, Sue Tilley, has curated an exhibition of artwork produced by people from around the world who were taking part in her online drawing…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Trial of Julian Assange By Nils MelzerPublished by Verso, 2022, hardback, £20 at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road. Review by Tim Barton In HIP194 Nick Pelling gives a satirical perspective…
HIP LOCAL LIT NEWS: ATownExploresABook22
Choose2bKind Project A Creative Writing Competition By Gail Borrow Kindness is the theme of #ATownExploresABook22’s creative writing competition running 1-31 March 2022. Young writers aged 7-14 years are invited to…