By John Bruce. JPF – John Peter Frederick – Goodman 16/3/1960 to 7/9/2023 I’m sure there are people reading this who knew JPF far longer than I did, and who know more about him, but these are my reflections on a friend and poet who died recently. We met...
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Interview: Katherine Barbour, Southampton’s first Green councillor, on her first months in office
Words and pictures by photographer Chris Moorhouse. Five months after Katherine Barbour was elected as Southampton’s first Green councillor, Chris Moorhouse asks how it’s going. Her smile at being elected in the early hours of the morning of May 6th was an abiding image of this year’s local election...
Southampton-based author Yarrow Townsend shortlisted for national children’s book award
Southampton-based author Yarrow Townsend has been shortlisted for a prestigious children’s book award. The Branford Boase Award acknowledges particular talent among debut children’s writers alongside the hard work of their editors. Yarrow’s book, The Map of Leaves, has been shortlisted for the award, alongside six others. Yarrow said: “To be...
Dan Mar-Molinero: Hometown Jazzer
By Charlie Hislop. Dan Mar-Molinero – for many years at the core of Southampton’s music scene and music education has finally released an album of his own music. ‘Taproot’ came out on Bandcamp today (March 3). It’s a big band, lockdown-created, Ivor Novello award-nominated jazz project. It’s Dan’s work...
People in Common: Poetry Platform’s Stephen Ripper Mizzen
by Anita Foxall. Poetry Platform is a warm welcoming spoken word open mic held at the Railway Inn in Winchester on the first Tuesday of every month. I met its incredibly talented host/poet, Stephen Ripper Mizzen, for a conversation about his open mic, his love of poetry and all...
People in Common: Carol Boulton, a heroine for horses
by Anna-Maria Bauer. Carol Boulton helps horses to come to trust with humans and people to lose their fear of the animals – and sometimes life in general. It is the calmness you notice first. The grounded, strong way Carol Boulton walks, the relaxed manner with which she interacts...
People in Common: Jim Chorley
by Martin Brisland. Jim Chorley – acoustic/folk singer-songwriter from Southampton. They say you should write about what you know. ‘Painting Circles in the Corn’ is certainly that. It is Jim Chorley’s song which immortalises an amazing family story. In 1991 Doug Bower and Jim’s father, Dave Chorley, from Southampton,...
People in Common: Pat Muldowney
by Charlie Hislop. There can’t be any band in Southampton whose first ambition wasn’t to play at the Joiners. And there are few successful UK bands who haven’t played there on tour. What they all remember is the big guy inside the door: Pat ‘the Joiners’ Muldowney. For twenty...
People in Common: Jenny and Howard Bromley
by Chris Richards. Atelier n. a workshop or studio, esp. of an artist or designer. There’s a quirky shop front at 19 Church Street, Southampton. Tucked round the corner from Shirley’s suburban high street, on a side road where a few small shops soon give way to housing...
People in Common: Ram Kelly
by Charlie Hislop. “I said ‘I’ll make it work. I’ve always been determined.’” Anyone who has met him will know that’s Kelly talking– Ram Kalyan. He could have been talking about any one of his projects, but he’s explaining how nearly 20 years ago he turned a four week...