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Author: Sarah Gomes Harris

Ever Heard of a Housing Strategy?

Posted on 27 August 2025 by Sarah Gomes Harris

SGH has been attending the Hastings Housing Strategy steering group for the last 10 months. With co-writers Grace L and Ethan, they highlight fundamental issues with the Strategy, and ask just how useful is an ‘even-handed’ approach to tenants and landlords while we’re in a housing crisis directly caused by landlording? Featured artwork by Chris…

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Finally a Proposal

Posted on 25 July 2025 by Sarah Gomes Harris

Sarah Gomes Harris Marry me Finally a proposal finally of finallys Marry me I sayI shout Empassioned Caught up from courting the unknown brushing misreadings until it WAS known billboard after billboard of years of strange sexual chemistry With a semidetached house The house knew it I knew it But we daren’t admit it to…

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Rental Health in Crisis

Posted on 1 February 202429 August 2025 by Sarah Gomes Harris

Sarah Gomes Harris co-founder of Hastings Rental Health, considers the very real consequences of living in a home that’s never allowed to be a home. “The sky hangs over us dark and low, like a dirty screen, on which the clouds are fighting fierce battles. That’s what our houses are for – to protect us…

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Daily Poem

We’re a largely text-based outfit here, so you’re going to find a few poets lurking.

Beginnings

Out of the primordial gooo
A beginning
Birth red and writhe like maggot
On the untrod surface of its earth
Gasp the first untainted breath
Flush lung from liquid’s grasp
And writhe toward your unknown future
All was written from scratched beginnings
Fragments scraped from disparate corners
No truths true but paradox
All logic mere invention
All walls built with nothing but
Bricks and mortar / sand and water
And all sand slips away in time
Structures crumble
Empires fall
And life begins again
Of a new primordial rubble

Oli Spleen, 2000

This section is meant for local poets. Submit your poems to info@hastings-examiner.uk. They’ll be added to our archive and eventually featured here.

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