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HIP Short Story
Tales from the Site Canteen (2)By Paul Tublord Lester Smith is 69. He’s bald, aged and has a crooked neck. He commands respect just by his presence and demeanour. He…
Bookbuster Book Review
The next instalment of ‘Positive views’ book reviews is here – and I’m looking at the late great Ivan Illich. Deschooling SocietyCelebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution Tools…
Write On In Hastings: Tom O’Brien
HIP Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE catches up with fellow Hastings-based Irish writer Tom O’Brien I started writing seriously over 25 years ago. Oh, I had always been a bit of…
Bookbuster Book Review
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the EstablishmentBy Aeron Davis Manchester University Press, 2018. RRP £ Review by P NOTHER “SOLITARY, RICH, NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT”It’s a pretty mess, isn’t…
The Mother Lode Project
Creative writing and photography workshops designed for motherhood and mental health I conceived and coordinated The Mother Lode Project as a means to channelling my experiences as a mother with…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke Hardback £ Picador The Language of Kindness (A Nurse’s Story) by Christie Watson Paperback £ Vintage REVIEW BY JOHN CORNELIUS THE (BAD) LANGUAGE OF…
Words for Wellbeing
By Brian Docherty Words for Wellbeing Hastings is a local writing for wellbeing group that offers ‘the opportunity to discover ourselves, to get clear and motivated, and to connect with…
Desmond Morris Thanks HIP
Desmond Morris, best-selling author (The Naked Ape etc.), former Curator of Mammals at London Zoo and one-time Director of the ICA, was so pleased to receive a copy of HIP 120…
Bookbuster Book Review
How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Stepsby Dr Youssef El-GingihyPublished by Zero Books (updated 2nd Edition) RRP £, Printed Matter and Bookbuster price £10 REVIEW BY LEE HUMPHRIES…
HIP Short Story
Tales from the Site Canteen (1)By Paul Tublord Sitting in the canteen on a site in Brighton and it’s like someone has cloned workers. 50% of them have tattooed hands…
HIP CLASSICS
What’s with the Hat?! If you just stumbled across this photo of a beautiful man you might think it was someone’s lover or friend; you might weave all kinds of…
HIP READ
The Lives of the Surrealistsby Desmond MorrisPublisher: Thames and Hudson£25 (Hardback) Review by JOHN CORNELIUS Surrealist poetry can be sourced back to the 19th century French Symbolists, including Lautremont, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Verlaine…
Bookbuster Book Review
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Realityby David Edwards & David CromwellPublished by Pluto, rrp £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In the search for reliable sources of news that…
HIP POETRY READ
Come Home Alive By Penny PepperBurning Eye Books 2018, RRP £ Reviewed by Pete Donohue Published performance poet, author, journalist and disability rights activist Penny Pepper is no stranger to Hastings & St…
Bookbuster Book Review
Unlocking Sustainable Citiesby Paul ChattertonPublished by Pluto, RRP £ Review by Tim Barton Towns and cities across the world are suffering an on-going assault on their diverse systems, and need…
New Young Writers Group Is Launched In Hastings
Young people who live in Hastings and St Leonards can now join a new group for young writers. Hastings Young Writers meets at the White Rock Hotel every two weeks…
Bookbuster Book Review
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Serviceby Melissa BennPublished by Verso, rrp £ Review by Tim Barton Here’s something to annoy the Thatcherites and fools that think they’re getting ‘their’ country back:…
HIP POETRY READ
Dangerous Dog by David FrancisSilverhill Press 2018, rrp £ REVIEW By Andrew Myers When I met David Francis at a Slam Dunk poetry event a couple of years ago, he lent…
New Poetry from HIP’s Pete Donohue
scream before they kill your poetry holy&intoxicated publications £5 (+p&p) available locally : bookbusters, printed matter, the bookkeeper or through (buy it from our website and all profits go to…
Bookbuster Book Review
A New Politics From The Left by Hilary Wainwright Published by Polity, rrp £ Review by Tim Barton In the late 60s and 70s there was a refreshing growth of cultural…
WENDY OXLADE R.I.P.
HIP Literature is saddened to hear of the recent death of Hastings poet and painter Wendy Oxlade. Wendy was a regular performer at Sheer Poetry nights at Bookbuster and delighted audiences…
Bookbuster Book Review
To Tame the Sentry Being by Michael Georgiou Published by Book Guild, rrp £ REVIEW BY THEO PILGRIM This is the first book of The Endless Dreams Saga, by St…
HIP CLASSICS: Paris, Texas. Ithaca. Same Timing, Different Time
There’s a very moving scene in director Wim Wenders’ film ‘Paris,Texas’ in which Harry Dean Stanton’s character, finding his long lost wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, tells her the story…
HIP READ
Too Many Drinks Ago By John D Robinson (Paper And Ink Literary Zine, £5) Poetry is more than words on a page (but no batteries required for alternative literature) It’s a simplistic…
HIP READS
By John Cornelius Ad Astra: Two Poets on a Stairway to Heaven Running Upon The Wires By Kate Tempest (Picador, Sept 2018, rrp £) The River in the Sky By…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward (Simon and Schuster, £20) Review by Paul Hunt HIP readers familiar with local history will know that in 1822 the residents…
WRITE ON IN HASTINGS: Candy Denman
HIP’s PETE DONOHUE investigates author Candy Denman and finds out why her crime novels are set in Hastings For most of her working life, Candy Denman has managed to juggle…
HIP READ: Poems For Tommy Two-Guns By Pete Donohue
By Brian Docherty Pleasures of the Damned Pete Donohue has been a stalwart of the Hastings Creative Crew, and a regular presence at local poetry and spoken word events for…
Who Doesn’t Love A Story?
Eight years since its first appearance, Hastings Storytelling Festival returns once again for a diverse series of events happening all over town between 5th and 11th November. There’s something for…
Bookbuster Book Review
Wages for Housework by Louise Toupin Published by Pluto Press, rrp £ Review by Jane Sarre This is the strangest book review I’ve offered since that one about the book I refused…
Pete Brown & The Hastings All Stars Sixties
Beat poet & lyricist supporting local homeless. By John Cornelius It’s nothing unusual to walk past a local pub and hear a live band bashing out a couple of 1960s…
Bookbuster Book Review
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone Published 2012, New World Library Reviewed by Jane Sarre Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy…
Write on in Hastings: Elvira Slate Raises the Roof
HIP’s JULIA MORTIMER met local author Helen Jacey to talk about Jailbird Detective, the novel which introduces her new female sleuth, Elvira Slate Constructed by Helen in the 21st century…
HIP YOUNG READ
Our newest and youngest HIP book reviewer, 9 year-old Wilma Boddy, writes about Ed Boxall’s latest poetry book for children: Me and My Alien Friend, Troika Books £ I really…
HIP READ
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain By Sayeeda Warsi (Revised Edition) Penguin Books, £ Review by Paul Hunt Do you know how many Muslims live within Hastings Borough? …
HIP SHORT STORY
Elvis on the Irrawaddy By Dave Young Since his untimely death in 1977 there have been many claimed sightings of Elvis Presley in the most unlikely places: Kalamazoo, Stockholm, Luton.…
Bookbuster Book Review
Brexit: Britain’s Great Food Gamble? A brief survey of our current crises, via books by John Humphrys and Dennis Pirages REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In 2000 we had a Kentish…
HIP CLASSICS: The Odyssey: The Pursuit of Paradise
In almost my most favourite book, The Mark and The Void by Paul Murray, a Greek waitress hands a customer some baklava and says: “In Greek we say nostimo. Which…
Local Literary News
Hastings Week Poetry Competition The theme this year is ‘Hastings Castle’ and there are three categories: 11 years and under; 12-18 years; Adults 18 years and above. Send one poem…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
REVIEW BY GILL KNIGHT Ben White’s new book, Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine / Israel, reframes the seemingly unsolvable situation in that land to include all of…