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Smoking Herb & Other Stories By John D RobinsonAnalog Submission Press Review by Pete Donohue A title may not mean what you think it does. This isn’t a tale about sucking on marijuana spliffs. The eponymous main story here refers…
Online Art Shows Worth a Look
Tempo Arts Tempo Artsis delighted to be working with five international artists to present Your Place, a new digital online project which offers perspectives during the lockdown and beyond. Your Place launches in July and continues through November 2020 featuring…
Festival by the Lake Online
By Gareth Stevens It was inevitable that the Festival by the Lake would be cancelled this year given the current situation. However a similar inevitability meant that Polly Gifford, the event’s chief organiser, would not be deterred. In an epiphanic…
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Cassidy’s Cross By Tom O’Brien Review by Elly Gibson Cassidy’s Cross is set in the fictional village of Doonbay in the South East of Ireland. It’s the 1960s and rural life seems pretty simple and ; On the surface the main…
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Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings Observer’s records, and one of the interests in the book…
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The Conservation Revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the AnthropoceneBy Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Verso, RRP £ Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton We face a global crisis of threatened systems failure, of which greenhouse gas emissions…
A Word From The De La Warr Pavilion
In 1935 DLWP was designed as a place to bring people together, inside and out, and we will work hard to bring that back to you as soon as we can. But as we head into the autumn, it may…
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The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful – Part One: HubrisBy Holly Jean Buck Review by Tim Barton In After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, £), Holly Jean Buck quotes SF author Kim Stanley Robinson, who…
Local Photographer and Legend Giles Duley Calls for Artists
VENT Studio Giles created VENT “out of a place of anger” having spent years photographing active warzones. In a video on the VENT website, he describes his need to progress beyond the basic way photography records events. He wants to…
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When Protest Becomes Crime:Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies By Carolijn TerwindtPublished by Pluto Books, paperback £ Review by Tim Barton In liberal democracies there tends to be an assumption, taught as fact at an early age, that a ‘separation…