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Poetry Corner
The Artisan JEMIA DE BLONDEVILLE The fine end Of a needle That pierces through The soft fabric As it pulls the cotton through Marrying materials Often of a different hue…
HYP: Samara Jayne Martin
Who are you? Imagine living a lie for the first 28 years of your life, because I did. On the surface I may appear to be exactly what you’d expect,…
HYP: Merlin Betts
Together, Alone “The wall is such a loud canvas, sometimes it hurts my ears.”I was invited to do this. Possibly I'd complained about it early on and then later there…
HYP: Exgsosa Zubi
There’s a charm in seeing a world that lives just a little beyond ours, Patterns and structures powdered in the etchings of chalk and crayon, The playground is our canvas,…
Poetry Corner
Cool Gang BEN FAIRLIGHT A surly gang of guys, well cool, Slinks along, hogs the prom – Seven youths with in-your-face faces Scuffing their trainers on the shingle spill. Inflated…
Normal Not Normal
by HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING Obviously, someone called Henry Normal is not going to be normal. Henry is not dull, au contraire, Henry is quietly, blazingly brilliant. You may…
Poetry corner: Old Roar Ghyll…haiku sequence
JOHN R PARSONS Old Roar Ghyllits ancient slabs still shedcreation’s trickle steep timber stepsrise and fall between gladeson the treacherous path clinging to vertical sidesold oaks convey networksof ivy into…
Poetry Corner: Letters
By John R Parsons lettersfrom people that I’ve never mettucked in books, I carry their contentsto bed with me, having found themon shelves in a bookcase where the corridorbends and…
Poetry Corner: My Ship
JOHN R PARSONS My ship’swake flows back to that momentwhen anchor, first pulled with so little effort lay there on the deck waiting until some mooring was acknowledged as safe…
The Poetic Image
Sarah Gomes Harris covered the Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival for HIP earlier this autumn. Here are some of her sketches of those attending. I sketched poets sporadically between chunky intervals.…
HIP POETRY NEWS
From the heart of the revolution: Rojava poet to perform in Hastings By Lee Humphries Next Thursday 21 July, award-winning partisan poet Matt Broomfield will visit Hastings’ St Mary in…
HIP LIT NEWS
Hastings Lit Fest anthology Literary Festival helps to fast-track new writers into print One of the many successes of this year’s Hastings Literary Festival has been Dateline Hastings: 23-09-21, an…
Greg’s Pandemic Plathcast
Iconic poetry for all in times of lockdown People in Hastings and St Leonards are doing all sorts of things to keep occupied… one of the strangest, perhaps, is Greg’s…
Dot Dash Explores the America Ground Online
MSL responds to the lockdown with an online cultural programme Dot Dash which runs from April to September. Margaret Sheehy, Director of MSL Projects explains: “Dot Dash, a largely digitally-hosted…
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…
Having Fun With Words
The Hastings & St Leonards Priory Cricket Club has launched a writing competition with the aim of breaking down the barriers between literacy and sport. The website asks entrants to…
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’…
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…
Finding The Macro In The Micro – Alchemy At The blackShed
This is a show of photographs, ceramics and a poem. Each pot stands on its floating plinth with all the dignified composure of the truly ancient. Yet these exquisite soil-textured…
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…
The Printworks Slam Sandwich
Maya Ostle reviews the Printworks’ regular poetry and spoken word competition or “slam” night On Thursday, February 28th at the Hastings Printworks, Slam Dunk poetry returned – back on the…
Poetry by Sir David Hare – Hastings hears it first
The first Hastings Literary Festival got off to a memorable start last Friday afternoon with a world premiere reading of poetry written by Sir David Hare. The opening event of…
HIP READ: The Pursuit of Shadows By John D Robinson
Reclusive Hastings poet John D Robinson has been featured in these pages before. Hundreds of his poems have appeared in the small press and online journals, and Robinson has an…
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local media gets hip PETE DONOHUE the day local media got hip was born out of disillusion with what a small group of us saw as blatant misrepresentation of tight-knit…
Poetry Corner
connelley’s noir Pete Donohue Twitter: @petedonohuepoet wry raw restless & risky just how i like my women & whiskey die poor feckless & frisky leave your heart in san franciski.…
Hit the Stage for Hastings Fringe Festival 2017
by Miranda Gavin Have you got an original act you want to perform, new writing to showcase, a story to tell, poetry to slam, or music to share? Join us…
Lost Magic at the Stables – Ed Boxall and Brian Moses.
By Laurie Taylor. (more…)
Poetry Corner
Pebbles of Life Dave Hempshall Written while co-facilitating Poetry for Recovery course for Hastings Recovery College Pebbles of life move. Shifting brown and grey. Gulls transcend, lifting, preying Struck dumb…