New Jersey Poet Tohm Bakelas Hits Hastings
Tohm Bakelas is a big name on the transatlantic underground poetry scene. A native of New Jersey, he currently works there as a psychiatric social worker and declares that he will die there. When not spending quality time with his…
Bookbuster Book Review
A Sand County Almanac: & Sketches Here and There By Aldo LeopoldPublished by OUPPaperback £ available at Bookbusters REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Aldo Leopold died in 1948, helping fight a wildfire on a neighbour’s farm. He had worked in the…
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Nature for Sale: The Commons Versus CommoditiesBy Giovanna RicoveriPublished by Pluto PressHardback £, available at Bookbusters Review By Tim Barton “We are simple people, with simple beliefs. We worship the sun, the moon and the stars on account of their…
Local Poetry Feeds Local Foodbank
Foodbank Britain is the debut poetry chapbook from local poet and community activist Dee Howard. It is subtitled ‘A mixed bag of poems looking at life in serious, fun and thought provoking ways’. The most important thing to say about…
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Case for the Green New DealThe Commons Versus CommoditiesBy Ann Pettifor Published by Pluto Press, £, hardcoverAvailable at Printed Matter Bookshop, and Bookbusters Review by Lee Humphries By the time you read this we will know if the government is one…
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The Coming Silent Seasons? Part Four: Sterile SeasThe Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars & SustainabilityBy Raymond A. Rogers Black Rose BooksThe End of the Line: How Over-fishing is Changing the World and What We EatBy Charles CloverEbury Press £ each,…
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 his name (that I know of) and has featured in…
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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, and since it was published he has published relatively little:…
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 HIP) Find out more on Facebook/pete donohue Twitter @petedonohuepoet and Instagram petedonohuepoet…
Literary Hastings – A Unique Expression
Hastings and St Leonard’s has inspired poets and authors for centuries, some mainstream but most alternative. Today’s local literary creatives offer impassioned insights into our town, together with national and global perspectives, whether through romanticism or stark realism. Explore or…