New Chapter for Hastings As Charity Takes On Literacy Campaign
“Books to the ceiling, books to the sky. My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – ARNOLD LOBEL Hastings-based support…
HIP READ: Last Train to Hilversum By Charlie Connelly
Bloomsbury hardback, £20 (pp 328) Review by Dave Young “The world is a small place when you have a radio,” remarks Cerys Matthews, presenter of popular and eclectic BBC Radio 2 and 6 music shows, in Last Train to Hilversum –…
Debut Novel at 71
Local writer Robin Young has just had his first novel published at the age of 71. Writing under the pen name R H Young, the author from Crowhurst has been writing in various formats for several years. His book was…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Three: Visible and Invisible PlasticsTurning the Tide on PlasticsBy Lucy SiegleTrapeze Books, £ by Tim Barton Since the 1950s consumer boom plastics have encased and comprised more and more and more of our goods. But, to…
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 here in the UK on tour that week. There will…
Letter To My Father By Franz Kafka
(Translated by Howard Colyer) Introduction by HIP Literature Editor Pete Donohue Kafka’s Letter to my Father is a century old this autumn. A few years ago local writer and HIP Literature reviewer, Howard Colyer, published his own translation of this…
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 categories: 11 years and under, 12-18 years and adults (19…
Hastings Storytelling Festival – Earlier, Bigger And Better
This year Hastings Storytelling Festival is happening in October (5th – 13th), rather than November, with another packed programme of storytelling for children, families and adults, and incorporating a broad range of local community partners. Highlights include the free Children’s…
Afghanistan: Hidden Voices From A Forgotten War By Maya Evans
Voices for Creative Non-Violence, £5 Review by Kay Green 180 years of conflict and misery, and no end in sight. We talk about Iraq, we talk about Syria and Palestine – there’s usually a remarkable silence on events in Afghanistan.…
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 even if I did not already know the poet, I’d…