Tag archives for Pete Donohue
Poetry Corner: winter shower
PETE DONOHUE the quietude takes willpower to abandon so distant from the rush of morning soundscape each movement drops the temperature with cruelty & routine pain kicks off this newest…
Poetry Corner
town of poets PETE DONOHUE in the cobwebbed glow of our basement kitchen where moths and wasps have given up the ghost i perch on the edge of the autumn…
HIP POETRY PREVIEW: Poet Town
The Poetry of Hastings & Thereabouts Published by Moth Light Press, 10th September 2025RRP: £ paperback, £ photo editionPREVIEW BY PETE DONOHUE It’s almost upon us – the much-anticipated publication…
HIP BOOK REVIEW: Bodichon
By Mary UptonTradewinds Publishing, 2024, rrp £ BY PETE DONOHUE A novel featuring a protagonist born into British colonial landed society a decade before Victoria takes the throne, is far…
Tymon Dogg Lights Up Electric Palace
PETE DONOHUE reviews the biggest small gig of the summer Walking into our Old Town fifty-seater, independent cinema music venue and bar for this extraordinary gig was like arriving at…
Poetry Corner
kim has a beach hut PETE DONOHUE in that tideturn brainspace shingle thoughts revolve around the daystar seagull children shriek excitement men in hats & yoga women stroke the surf…
HIP CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: 8-Year-Old Hastings Girl Sees Her First Book Published
PETE DONOHUE Frida Bee Barnard Mason is so excited to have had her first book, The Headless Ghost, The Robot and The Boy, published in May by Ginger Fyre Press.…
HIP POETRY REVIEW: A Postcard from the Abyss
By Martin Appleby & Kris Garrattback room poetry, £5REVIEW BY PETE DONOHUE Hastings underground poet and DIY publisher Martin Appleby has featured several times in HIP Literature over the years.…
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 READs of 2020
The best of the year’s HIP Reads, in no particular order of merit,as chosen by Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE Dhanmondi Road By Young Early in the year HIP’s ELLY GIBSON…
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 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…
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…
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 READ: Poems For Tommy Two-Guns By Pete Donohue
By Brian Docherty Pleasures of the Damned Pete Donohue has been a stalwart of the Hastings Creative Crew, and a regular presence at local poetry and spoken word events for…