My review of The Guns of Retribution - a Western novella by Icy Sedgwick, published by Brighton’s Pulp Press – is now online at For Books’ Sake
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The Guns of Retribution
Posted in Books, Brighton, Fiction, tagged Brighton, For Books' Sake, Icy Sedgwick, Novella, Pulp Press, The Guns of Retribution, Western on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Grit Lit at Brighton Festival Fringe
Posted in Brighton, Writing, tagged Amy Riley, Brighton, Dan Holloway, Dan Tsu, Ed Siegle, For Books' Sake, Grit Lit, Neil Ansell, Red Roaster Cafe, Stephanie Lam, Steve Cake, Tim Lay, Wendy Ann Greenhalgh on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reviewed by me at For Books’ Sake
What’s Good for the Goose…
Posted in Art and Photography, Brighton, tagged Brighton, Cobbler's Thumb, Grafitti, Jekyll, New England Street, Politics, Protest on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Angry art for troubled times: found on a wall outside the Cobbler’s Thumb pub, New England Street, Brighton. The (anonymous) rhyme dates from the 17th century, protesting against land enclosure and rural dispossession.
Emergency Verse
Posted in Books, Brighton, Poetry, tagged Alan Corkish, Alan Morrison, Anne Sexton, Brighton, Caroline Lucas, Cuts, Emergency Verse, George Orwell, Keith Armstrong, Mick Moss, Naomi Foyle, Niall McDevitt, Pen Kease, PJ Harvey, Poetry, Protest on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The UK’s general election of May 2010 produced no overall majority, and for the first time since 1945, a coalition was formed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, with David Cameron and Nick Clegg taking the roles of Prime Minister and Deputy. Chancellor George Osborne swiftly proposed the most radical cuts to public services [...]
Backstage Brighton
Posted in Books, Brighton, History, Non-Fiction, tagged Backstage Brighton, Brighton, Coronation Street, Donald Sinden, Laurence Olivier, Lucy Packham, Marlene Dietrich, Queenspark Books, Theatre on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Backstage Brighton: Theatre-Going in Brighton & Hove (2010) is the latest offering from Queenspark Books, Brighton’s community publisher, specialising in oral history. It complements their previous book, Back Row Brighton: Cinema-Going in Brighton & Hove (2009.)
Brighton Writes
Posted in Brighton, Updates, Websites, Writing, tagged Brighton, Creative Future on September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Brighton Writes is a new blog from me, in association with Creative Future, a charity for marginalised artists and writers. I’ll be covering news from the region – and beyond – on the arts, with a special emphasis on literature, getting your voice heard and also mental health and related social issues. If this sounds [...]
Refugee Radio
Posted in Brighton, Music, tagged Bakk Lamp Fall, Brighton, Refugee Radio, The Cornerstones, Volks Club on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One night last week, I celebrated my birthday at the Volks Tavern, a small club on the colonnade at Madeira Drive, near Brighton Pier. It is named after the light railway that runs nearby, and is one of the most laidback, intimate venues in the city. One of my oldest friends, Stephen Silverwood, founded Refugee [...]
Grace of the Gamblers
Posted in Books, Brighton, History, Poetry, tagged Grace O'Malley, Grace of the Gamblers, Naomi Foyle, Waterloo Press on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille) was born in Mayo circa 1530, daughter of a chieftain. She became Ireland’s most renowned sea-raider, and her battles with Sir Richard Bingham, the Governor of Connacht, are the stuff of legend. In 1593, when English colonisation was at its peak, Grace famously negotiated with Elizabeth I at Greenwich Palace. [...]
From Russia With Love
Posted in Books, Brighton, Fiction, Film, Profumo Affair, Wicked Baby, tagged Brighton, Cityreads, From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming, James Bond on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘City Reads’ is an annual event in Brighton and Hove, beginning on World Book Day in March and concluding during the Brighton Festival in May. Each year one book is chosen, to be read and discussed by the whole community over three months. Since 2005, a variety of texts from Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy, Alice [...]
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