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East Sussex Writers Triumph in International Competition
By Alison Steel Writers from Bexhill, Hastings and St Leonards fought off stiff international competition to pick up key prizes in Hastings Literary Festival’s 2019 competition, which featured short story,…
HIP POETRY READ
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…
HIP classics
The Minotaur – Fiend or Friend? Pan and the Minotaur are both mythological figures with celestial horns and human/animalian bodies. While Pan can roam freely, the Minotaur is imprisoned in…
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’…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons? Part Two: invisible apocalypse – the feminization of natureREVIEW FEATURE BY TIM BARTON Chlorine is a poison, one that can, in the right dilution and in various…
HASTINGS LITFEST NEWS
Hastings author’s traumatic experience sparks idea for novel By Alison Steel A Hastings author has turned his shattering personal experience of being cyber-stalked into material for a new thriller, which…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons?Part One: a brief ecological review, post-Carson Review feature by Tim Barton Over the next couple of issues, I intend to take a look at the deeper history…
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…
Bookbuster Book Review
Fully Automated Luxury CommunismBy Aaron BastaniVerso hardcover in stock at Bookbuster & Printed Matter Bookshop, £ REVIEW BY P. NOTHER According to Theresa May, those of us who are against Brexit…
EAST SUSSEX LIBRARIES Summer Space Chase for young readers
Young readers will be able to embark on an adventure that is out of this world, with the return of the Summer Reading Challenge. East Sussex libraries are calling on…
HIP PROFILE
Roger McGough The ‘People’s Poet’ – Part two HIP concludes its two part interview/Q & A with, poet and Radio 4’s Poetry Please presenter, Roger McGough. If you missed Part…
HASTINGS LITFEST NEWS
Annual lecture launched to honour Hastings writer Catherine CooksonBy Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival has announced it is launching an annual Catherine Cookson Lecture to honour the best-selling writer who…
HIP PROFILE
Roger McGough The ‘People’s Poet’ – Part one By John Cornelius Hastings Independent Press has in a short space of time acquired a formidable reputation for acute arts coverage. John…
HASTINGS LITFEST NEWS
Springwatch star Lucy lifts the lid on animals’ hidden lives in hometown show By Alison Steel TV presenter and author Lucy Cooke will be demolishing the myths and mystique surrounding…
Bookbuster Book Review
This is Not a Drillan Extinction Rebellion Handbook Penguin paperback in stock at Bookbuster, £ by Tim Barton Here’s a topical book, right at the height (so far) of Extinction…
HIP CLASSICS
Nympholepsy – What’s it all about? Tales of Greek gods seducing women are well known, but there are stories of goddesses seducing men too. On this vase, Eos, goddess of…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Metal MountainBy John HealyPublished by Etruscan Books (2019) £ Review by Howard Colyer It begins with a party that doesn’t happen – at least not for the young family…
HIP AUTHOR PROFILE: John Healy
London, Ireland & Hastings By Nicholas Johnson The writer John Healy was born in Kentish Town London to Irish parents hailing from Sligo and Roscommon. Healy was born on Armistice…
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…
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Your Baby’s Best ShotBy Stacy Mintzer Herlihy & E. Allison HagoodHardback in stock at Bookbuster, £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON The values of the Enlightenment were hard won, and harder…
HASTINGS LITFEST UPDATE Have a chat with Sarfraz Manzoor
You may know him as a journalist in The Guardian, documentary presenter on Radio 4, or a cultural commentator on Newsnight Review or Saturday Review. You may not know him…
HIP POETRY READ
Hang in Thereby John D RobinsonUncollected Press 2019, £12, €15, $15 + p&p Review by Pete Donohue Widely published Hastings poet John D Robinson has at least eight chapbooks to…
Bookbuster Book Review
Horizon By Barry LopezHardback £25In stock at Bookbusters, £20 Review by Tim Barton Arctic Dreams, reviewed last issue, was Lopez’s second book, preceded by the excellent Of Wolves & Men,…
Hidden Sussex
Hastings & St Leonards writers featured in a new BAME Anthology Lisa Climie and Georgina Aboud have been published in a first anthology celebrating Sussex experience from the Black, Asian…
Really Independent Bookshop Week
Hastings & St Leonards. 15th June – 22nd June Four booksellers have clubbed together to run a special bookshop week, with a series of events! We are all local independent…
Bookbuster Book Review
Arctic DreamsBy Barry Lopez Review by TIM BARTON The next instalment of ‘positive views’ book reviews is here – and I’m looking at a seminal 1970s book, from Fritz Schumacher.…
Really Independent Bookshop Week
Hastings & St Leonards ‘Really Independent Bookshop Week’, 2019 is running from Saturday June 15th to Saturday June 22nd. Literary events will be run across the week at four venues…
HIP PROFILE: Mike Evans
poet/author saxophone player/editor Q&A with HIP’s local literary correspondent John Cornelius PART two Continued from Part One in HIP Literature Issue 127 click here Mike Evans played alto saxophone in…
Celebrating Bloomsday In Hastings Old Town
By LUCY BRENNAN SHIEL On 16 June, 115 years ago, Leopold Bloom got up, had breakfast, started wandering the streets of Dublin, and finally encountered Stephen Dedalus. In his famous…
HIP PROFILE: Mike Evans
poet/author saxophone player/editor Q&A with HIP’s local literary correspondent John Cornelius PART ONE Sketch of Mike Evans by John Cornelius Mike Evans played alto saxophone in the 1960s ‘Mersey Beat’…
HIP CLASSICS: Diminutive Monsters
The Myth of Arachne in Ovid and Velazquez Queen Victoria’s wedding dress was made of spider silk. It wouldn’t have been my choice. I wonder how many died during the…
Bookbuster Book Review
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People MatteredBy EF Schumacher REVIEW BY TIM BARTON The next instalment of ‘positive views’ book reviews is here – and I’m…
Bookbuster Book Review
Rocking & RhymingBuddy Holly: Learning the Game By Spencer LeighPublisher: McNidder & Grace, price £15 (Foreword by Frank Ifield) Joinedupwriting By Roger McGoughPublisher: Penguin Viking, price £ Reviews by John Cornelius…
LITERATURE LIVE: Salena Godden And Friends At Crowley’s Bar
This was a poetry night unlike many. Organised by Printed Matter and compèred by talented local poet David Francis, the theme was ostensibly epic poetry and electric guitars, but went…
Hastings LitFest 2019 –Showcasing A Wide Range Of Literary Talent
By Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival has announced its programme for 2019, featuring George Orwell’s adopted son Richard Blair, musician and writer Tracey Thorn, TV presenters Alice Roberts and Lucy…
Write on in Hastings – Andy Oakes
HIP Literature Editor Pete Donohue hears how long-time Hastings based author Andy Oakes achieved international success by creating his own crime genre From Dyslexia to Chinese NoirAlthough a chronic dyslexic,…
Bookbuster Book Review
Deschooling SocietyCelebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional RevolutionTools for ConvivialityAll by Ivan Illich Review By Tim Barton(Part 2 of 2) Continued from HIP Issue 124 (click here to read)…
grandIOTA
New Local Independent Press Launch By Pete Donohue grandIOTA is a new independent press based in Brighton and St Leonards, dedicated to imaginative, out of the ordinary prose writing. The…
Local Writer And Critic David Quantick Launches Debut Novel
By Anna Arnone Can a forgotten book take revenge on an author who misappropriates its contents? Can a person be so repulsive that they deserve the resulting tide of woe…
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…