Viva Brighton Issue #81 November 2019

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BITS AND BOOKS ............................... HOME CREATIVE FUTURE WRITERS’ AWARD The Creative Future Writers’ Anthology is fast becoming a fixture of literary life in <strong>Brighton</strong>. The anthology collects the winning entries from the Writers’ Award Competition, which invites submissions from those who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, health or social circumstance. The awards come under six headings – Platinum through Bronze to Commended – and comprise packages with mentorships, retreats, Faber Academy and Poetry School courses, and various books. There’s also a swanky launch in London, and a chance to meet judges and fellow winners. Matt Freidson, Deputy Director of Creative Future, outlines this year’s theme: ‘For <strong>2019</strong> we asked: what does ‘home’ mean?’ Out of over a thousand entries the winning pieces in their various categories are evenly divided between poetry and prose pieces, with a section of work from this year’s judges at the back of the book. The standard is high. Gary Evans’ Hefted is about a farmworker trying to get a ewe that’s lost her new-born lamb to accept another ewe’s lamb: ‘A rejected lamb’s only got a couple of hours.’ The language hurtles along: ‘Moka pot gurgles. Coffee’s done. Fetch Bunk and McNulty from the barn.’ The race against time, the brutality of the farm, are brilliantly done. Iqbal Hussain’s piece opens: ‘I was fourteen years old when my parents sold me into slavery.’ This is the plight of the narrator’s mother, and what follows is a classic portrait of an immigrant family, held together by a matriarch who resents her early marriage, but not her family: ‘But look what I have now. I am the wealthiest woman in the world.’ Susan Hunter Downer’s piece also explores estrangement in The Space Between Words: ‘I were a woman once… I’m a rain cloud now.’ The device of woman-into-cloud allows Downer to convey with poetry and grim humour life in a ‘hostile environment’. I was also impressed by Michelle Perkins’ The Out, whose narrator’s alienation is conveyed in a striking idiolect of her own: ‘People all about and I an unseen.’ This unorthodox syntax is skillfully sustained throughout the piece to moving effect. The poets are equally powerful. Sallyanne Rock uses the structure of a recipe to contrast domestic abuse with the contentment of home cooking in You Are Not Nigella Lawson: ‘Soften onions in oil on a low flame.../Reflect on the last time you felt scared.’ Natalia Theodoridou creates a little road movie of migration whose title is a little poem in itself: ‘After the Backdrop of Pale Men, Under the Fake Rain, After We Left For Good.’ Sally Davis’s poem In my imaginary house, I’d have imaginary parents is a series of striking images that ends on the most beautiful image of all. And Lauren Robinson offers a prayer every poet will recognise: ‘Moon Be My Mother’. But what order, you might be asking, do these pieces come in? Which are the Platinum, Gold Silver entries? Reader, you’ll have to buy the book to find out. John O’Donoghue Home, Creative Future, £6 creativefuture.org.uk ....27....
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Page 4 and 5: OPENING... 29 | 11 | 2019 BRIGHTON
Page 6 and 7: LEWES TOWN HALL FISHER STREET LEWES
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Page 20 and 21: Focusing on you Counselling, Psycho
Page 22 and 23: CLARITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Time to
Page 24 and 25: BITS AND BOOKS ....................
Page 28 and 29: BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN A CONCERT A
Page 30 and 31: INTERVIEW .........................
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Page 40 and 41: John Davis MA BACP(reg) Integrative
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Page 44 and 45: BRINGING HARLEY STREET TO BRIGHTON
Page 46 and 47: MARINA Tue 5 Nov THE AUSTRALIAN PIN
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Page 68 and 69: Towner Art Gallery David Nash 200 S
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Page 74 and 75: THE WAY WE WORK Stephen Evans, Brig
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