Word About Town 2004

This years festival has been and gone, you missed it... what can we say, it was brilliant. Here are some of the highlights from 2004, winning poems and odd ball moments, if you don't want to miss next years annual fetsival of words in Hastings then contact us through the message board and we'll add you to our mail out list.

Literally Live

Charlotte Moore, Dr Trevor Hopper (Tressel Society) and Iain Sinclair.

Literary nuggets from Charlotte Moore talking about her most recent book George and Sam, Trevor Hopper discussing the continuing importance of The Ragged Trousered Philanphropist and finally semi local writer Iain Sinclair talking about his new book 'Dining on Stones' set partly in Hastings.

Straight To Video

Film competition evening, for films using poetry. winning entry this year came from Naomi Foyle with her disturbing or sexy renditioning of her own work 'A good defenition'

Naomi Foyle

Poetry in Person

Ros Barber, Zena Edwards, Claire Hammil and Matt Harvey.

A brilliant evening featuring Ros Barber reading from her first book of poetry 'How things are on Thursday' (which we highly recommend, moving, funny accesible and yet highly personal). Zena Edwards intelligent witty and dub party poetr, Claire Hammils lyrical and gliding folk music all compered by poet in residence and the man for whom the word 'nice' was invented Matt Harvey.

Matt Harvey

Matt Harvey poet in residence

Lovable Matt our poet in residence played to hospital wards, libraries and to school children as well as running workshops with Shorelink Writers, The Horizons Creative Writing Group and The Seaview Centre. This was Matt first residence and we highly recommend him to anyone.

POEM

For more information on Matt contact Mattharvey.co.uk

Storm in the Castle - Attila the Stockbroker / Jon Otway and Tragic Roundabout

A packed venue filled out St Mary with a cross section of Hastings and St Leonards glued to the performances of Attila the Stockbroker and Jon Otway and a poetry performance set of unforgettable madness, followed by the antics and music of Tragic Roundabout, who continued to play even when we switched the mikes off, walking across the tables. A great end to a fab festival.

Attila the Stockbroker