Viva Lewes Issue #143 August 2018

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28 - 30 SEPT 2018 NEIL BARTLETT, AS BYATT, SARAH CHURCHWELL, JUNO DAWSON, TIM DEE, LOUISE DOUGHTY, IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR, SARAH HALL, AL KENNEDY, OLIVIA LAING, KATE MOSSE, DALJIT NAGRA, BEN OKRI, LIONEL SHRIVER, AND MANY MORE CHARLESTON.ORG.UK TEL: 01323 815150
BITS AND BOOKS LOCAL LITERATURE Over the last few years three of the most important paintings in Lewes Town Hall’s collection (of over 30) have been lovingly restored by specialists in Cambridge, and have now been rehung, lit up to show off their newly vibrant hues. To help celebrate this £61,000 project, the journalist Sarah Bayliss has written an accompanying book, The Lewes Town Hall Pictures, Stories behind our paintings. Of the three paintings, the one that strikes the eye most is The Visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Lewes, 22 October 1830, and Bayliss begins the book with an explanation of that remarkable piece of work, which is unsigned, but attributed to Archibald Archer. The other two to have been restored are Protestant Reformer (unknown artist, 17th century) an imaginary group shot of the most important Protestant dissenters, and The Battle of Lewes, May 14th, 1264 (Hardy pinxit, before 1844) an action-movie of a work showing the battle in full swing, in front of the castle. Each gets a no-stoneunturned description. All the other pictures are given a write up: my favourite is Lewes Listens, a flight of Julian Bell’s imagination, depicting an emergency meeting (of 50-or-so real-life Lewesians) to discuss a town planner’s proposal to demolish the castle and build some flats in its place. Note the ‘our’ in the subtitle: this is a book by a Lewesian, for Lewesians, and should be owned by anyone with an interest in the history of the town. ‘Just when you think you’ve reached the top’, writes Jack Arscott, in his book about running, Up the Downs, ‘...it turns out you haven’t’. Jack has made it his mission to run on different routes all over the South Downs, across both counties of Sussex, and record what he sees, and how he feels. Some of it’s quite poetic. He describes the ‘view of Ashcombe Windmill framed against the great bony whaleback of Kingston Ridge’. ‘How he feels’ is often pretty bad, because he makes no bones about it, running up hills is very hard, especially when the Beast of the East is blowing and you’re trying to do The Moyleman, one of the toughest marathons in the business. But you get the feeling that his reward is the nature around him, and especially the beautiful views he’s slogged himself into a position to enjoy. Another person who appreciates nature is poet Nana Tomova, who has just published her Selected Poems. Bulgarian-born Nana, we read in the back, was a mental health pharmacist before becoming a photographer and artist, so she ‘has experience of inner and outer wilderness work’. In Spring she writes: The spring awakens / And blossoms / What is buried within me.’ In Ode to a Tree, she writes ‘I feel alone in your roots / The loneliness is welcome to me / It is like the bitterness in my mouth / which tastes sweet.’ In between the poems, there are photographs of natural phenomena. It’s a slim book, full of depth. Alex Leith 21
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