Peacock Poetry Prize
The annual arts festival, Brighton Festival, will be returning to Brighton this May, commencing from 4 May until the 28 May. The return of the festival also comes with the…
A poetic evening with Chris Riddell and A.F Harrold
On 22 November, Waterstones Brighton hosted Poems to Live your Life by: An Evening with Chris Riddell, where poet A.F Harrold and illustrator Chris Riddell took to the stage to…
The Stanza rebrands as Offshoot
With The University of Sussex’s popular online magazine, The Stanza, rebranding this year under the new name Offshoot, they have many new plans in the works. I had the chance…
New Poets Take to the Stage at Hi Zero
On the 30 November it was the last Tuesday of the month, meaning, of course, I was at The Hope and Ruin ready for Hi Zero, as usual. This month…
Poets and Musicians Against the Arms Trade Preview
On the 10th of November in Falmer Bar’s own Room 76 a series of musicians and poets are coming together to protest against the arms trade. The event has been…
Poets Wow Crowds at The Haunt
On Sunday evening, The Haunt welcomed a trio of poets from America and Canada as part of Neil Hilborn’s UK tour, treating guests to an uplifting night of rhyme and…
Review: Journeying with Grace Nichols
In celebration of Black History Month, Sussex Student Union organised a number of interesting talks and events across October. One of these exciting opportunities was a chance to listen and…
Stand Up & Slam review
Sometimes the best experiences are those you initially question. Stand Up & Slam is one such idea, for it is a resounding triumph of an evening. Hosted in the downstairs…
Sexy Review
As the audience enters the auditorium, ‘Lady Marmalade’ blares from the speakers. Moments later a woman appears apologetically in her underwear. It is as apt an introduction to Vanessa Kisuule’s…
Poetry by Rachel Stone
Where does your passion for poetry come from ? When and why did you start writing ? “I’d say my passion for writing poetry comes from my grandmother, who was…
Engaged Poetry by Stavros Anagnou
Stavros Anagnou, 4th year, BSc Biology. L.A : Where does your passion for poetry comes from ? S.A : “I fell in love with poetry for the first time by…
Sanjay Noonan – Poetry
Sanjay Noonan is a 3rd year Medicine student at Sussex. ” I started writing poetry when I was 14, although it has never been something I have shared . It…
Miles Fagge – Poetry
Miles Fagge is a 3rd year English Literature student, as well as our Theatre Editor here at The Badger ! ” For me poetry does not always have to be…
Stefania Chihaia – Photopoetry
Stefania Chihaia is a 3rd year Media and Communications student. ”I started writing poetry a year ago, and discovered that the words would just come flowing out of me. Ever…
J. J. FARNDON – ‘LAYERS OF SKIN’
Jasmine is a third year English Literature and History student here at Sussex. L.A : When did you start writing/ taking photos? J.F : ”I have kept diaries off and…
‘We’re not trying to reproduce the [poetry] establishment’: the 7th Annual Sussex Poetry Festival, reviewed
7th Annual Sussex Poetry Festival poster. Image: Josh Cook. Freya Marshall Payne ‘We’re not trying to reproduce the establishment’ is something Natalia Cecire, one of the organisers, said to me…
Predestined and Prolonged (fragment)
Byron Taylor I am the face of your futurity, I am the scope of your skill The hemispheres of your head. I am the leaves that Sweep your spirit’s streets,…
Readers inc: Ted Hughes – Last Letter
In the world of poetry, the discovery of an unpublished work by the late poet laureate Ted Hughes about his relationship with Sylvia Plath is like the discovery of an…
Spoken turd night
Hammer and Tongue: Spoken Word, Komedia Studio Bar, 06/11/08 The premise of Komedia’s Hammer and Tongue had been so promising: an evening of poetry and spoken word from local and…