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HIP POETRY READ
Swallowing Paregoric Babies By Pete Donohue Published by Uncollected Press (ML, USA)158 pp. $15 from publisher or £ from Amazon UKAlso available from local bookshops (signed) Review by Nick Pelling…
HIP Poetry Read
Of Few Words By Lucas Howard Whisky & Beards PublishingHardback £15 Review by Pete Donohue Dyslexia and Neurodiversity-friendly Poetry Here is a new poetry collection with a distinct difference. Hastings…
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…
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…
Bookbuster Book Review
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…
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…
Bookbuster Book Review
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…
Bookbuster Book Review
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…
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,…
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…
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…