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BOOK BUSTER REVIEW – John Cornelius
REVIEW BY PETE DONOHUE Once you know the history of John Cornelius it’s difficult not to hear his poetry in your head, as you read it, with the deadpan wit,…
Hastings Beatles Day In Pictures
Pete Prescott / Cliff Brooker Berforts Ltd, hardback, rrp £ Reviewed by TIM BARTON Sunday April 8th was Hastings Beatles Day, our annual celebration of The Beatles music. This year…
Poetry corner 100
local media gets hip PETE DONOHUE the day local media got hip was born out of disillusion with what a small group of us saw as blatant misrepresentation of tight-knit…
Bookbuster Book Review
What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto Edited by Federico Campagna & Emanuele Campiglio Pluto Press, hardback, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Compiled after…
LOCAL LITERARY HISTORY – Lewis Carroll
By GILLIAN METCALFE Who does not remember Jabberwocky, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Mock Turtle? Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was, and still is, held in great…
Royal Delicacies
ADVERTORIAL Last November Jez Smith opened Queens Deli on Queens Road. Here’s what he has to say about his business and the area. Why a Deli ? I was brought…
HIP CLASSICS – Art and Alchemy
If you had to invent a god of art, you could scarcely do better than the Greeks did in creating Hephaistos. It’s easy to identify with his story. He is…
Write on in Hastings – Andy Clancy
Local author and retired police officer Andy Clancy has always been a fan of historical fiction. His first novel Sullivan’s War became an amazon best-seller with a raft of 5-star reviews. Now he…
Bookbuster Book Review – Turbulent Sisters
Turbulent Sisters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings & St Leonards By Ann Kramer Circaidy Gregory Press paperback, RRP £, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY KAT NIP Women today…
Write on in Hastings: Joan Taylor-Rowan
HIP literary editor Pete Donohue catches up with local author and creative writing course provider Joan to get her story When I was eight years old, I discovered that my…
HIP READ: Getting Headway
Enigmatic in title and content, Headway, the first novel by Kit Battenberg is many things An existential novel addressing – sometimes aggressively confronting - the human condition, whilst gesticulating dramatically…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
Struggle in a Time of Crisis Edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Mbuso Nkosi Pluto Press, paperback, rrp £, REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Rooting the current crisis in the financial &…
Achilles and Patroklos – Gay or ‘Just’ Close Friends?
HIP CLASSICS Achilles & Patroklus; Painted by Sosias c500 BCE Show me a conflict and I’ll show you a fence to sit on, though I like to think it’s a…
HIP READ: Sussex Horrors
HIP READ Sussex Horrors By Jonathan Broughton, Mark Cassell & Rayne Hall Three Sussex authors…twelve horror stories. Long term Hastings resident Jonathan Broughton writes fantasy, horror, paranormal and urban stories. Two…
The War on the Old
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW The War on the Old by John Sutherland Biteback Publishing, hardback, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ REVIEW BY KAT NIP After the result of the last election and the…
HIP READ – An Outlaw in the Making By John D Robinson
The Hastings community is often lauded for both the quality and quantity of its collective creativity. Many manifestations of this can be found writ large upon our streets and festival…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
Bread For All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick Allen Lane BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW BY TIM BARTON The air over Britain was dark, condensed into mournful gloom, as…
What the Dickens!
By Pete Donohue Once upon a time -- of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve -- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. When I took…
Pete & the Poets
Speaking Out for the Homeless at the Hastings Fringe Pete Donohue HIP Literature is pleased to both support and be part of Hastings Fringe 2017. On Sunday 3 September 7-10…
HIP bookshops
Bookshops with a novel approach by Kate Barnwell It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in pursuit of a good book must be in want of a good…
WRITE ON IN HASTINGS – Miranda Innes
Local author Miranda Innes tells HIP Literature editor Pete Donohue of her adventurous writing journeys and how she has ended up in St Leonards: I have written twenty books, four…
ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue
Bookbuster Interview The US Rust Belt Poet with the Wife of Bath Kicks Out the Jams in Hastings (England) ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue The (mad) March monthly…
American Porn by Heathcote Williams
A HIP READ - Review by Pete Donohue On 20th January many of us on this side of The Pond watched mouths agape as the 45th President of the United States…
Not Here Not Us Short stories of Syria – Author: Bronwen Griffiths
A Hip Read - reviewed by Pete Donohue Hastings author Bronwen Griffiths describes herself as an activist committed to solidarity with the Syrian Revolution. Whether those opposing an oppressive…
Poetry Corner
connelley’s noir Pete Donohue Twitter: @petedonohuepoet wry raw restless & risky just how i like my women & whiskey die poor feckless & frisky leave your heart in san franciski.…
We Can Be Heroes
HIP CLASSICS by SIMONE WITNEY Homer’s Iliad translated by Stephen Mitchell, Audiobook read by Alfred Molina 'Rage’ is the first word of the Iliad and its theme. ‘Anger’, says Achilles ‘far…
Bookbuster Book Review: NOIR by Ken Champion
Review by Chris Connelley I read a fair amount of fiction, and most of the British stuff is clever, elegant and slight. Its miniaturist map takes in comfortably-off urban worlds…
Tense art and Performance Poetry in St Leonards
Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove brought “Surface Tension" to St. Leonard's in an exhibition expressing the power of the tangible and intangible forces around us. This Hastings Arts…
Roundabout By Mel Wright
Chris Connelley feels the love with a heart- warming tale of everyday folk fighting against all odds Avid readers of this column may recall a review of Mel Wright’s previous…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 7: Weathering the winter winds in poetic style As autumn morphs into winter there are stop-start icy winds troubling our crazy coastline. I don’t welcome them. They tear through…
Poetry Corner
Pebbles of Life Dave Hempshall Written while co-facilitating Poetry for Recovery course for Hastings Recovery College Pebbles of life move. Shifting brown and grey. Gulls transcend, lifting, preying Struck dumb…
The Christmas Tree
By Roy Browning with illustrations by Mike Raxworthy reviewed by Pete Donohue When Phil and Ann Gill turned up with a typewritten poem at local illustrator Mike Raxworthy's studio he…
Write on in Hastings: Gavin Martin – Talking Musical Revolutions
Pete Donohue introduces: Hastings & St Leonards based music critic and performance poet, Gavin Martin, has interviewed or reviewed just about any artiste worth knowing about in the music industry…
A HIP READ – Shine On, Marquee Moon by Zoe Howe
Review by Pete Donohue: It isn’t easy ro write a debut novel set within the music industry without slipping into rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Zoe Howe overcomes this problem by…
Bookbuster Book Review
Dream Brother the lives & music of Jeff & Tim Buckley By David Browne Fourth Estate, RRP £, available at Bookbuster for £ Review by Tim Barton Both Jeff and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…