Peter Kenny
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A close shave for the British Skin Foundation
Following my recent post in this blog about this outfit, I tore this press advert from The Observer last weekend. This “Charity” (sorry “organisation” according to the ad copy) is nakedly being used to sell the product. And take a look at the relative sizes of the logos! My previous uneasiness about this is compounded.
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Victor Hugo arrives at Guernsey
The Expulsion of Victor Hugo, by Jean Le Pelley, which originally appeared in the Transactions of La Society Guernesaise for 1970. Contains this glimpse into Victor Hugo’s arrival on Guernsey during a storm. I love this portrayal of the great man’s trunk with all his writings being in such jeopardy. In this description Le Pelly…
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Theme and variations one and two
Like some kind of ghoul, I am usually unfilmable. And the recordings we made of This Concert will fall in love with you all went wrong in mysterious ways –for example the sound files recorded by Glen Capra were on his laptop, stolen in Northern Ireland. But happily we have just fixed the video camera…
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Back from the book Launch
Back from Guernsey now after a very successful book launch. Perhaps most enjoyably we managed to get on BBC Guernsey with Jenny Kendall-Tobias twice. She’s an excellent radio host and a lovely woman, and we did an entire two hour show with her. What we couldn’t have predicted was that she loved our work. The…
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Launching a Guernsey Double
Flying to Guernsey tomorrow, and while there will be launching A Guernsey Double. Really looking forward to this a great deal. Richard Fleming and I will be on BBC Radio Guernsey at 10:00am on the 1st July, interviewed I think by Jenny Kendall-Tobias. Then at 5:30pm we will do a launch reading at The Greenhouse,…
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A surfeit of locusts
The publication of A Guernsey Double is imminent. I have been experiencing a weird kind of anti-natal anxiety. I know Richard went through the same thing a few days ago. Not at all what I expected to feel. It’s a kind of vulnerability I suppose. I asked an old friend Mario Petrucci, who has had…
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The British Skin Foundation walks the tightrope.
At least two adverts have blinked across my TV dulled eyes lately, which feature an outfit called The British Skin Foundation. Call me a cynic, but I assumed that this was a made up marketing organisation, but I was wrong. The British Skin Foundation is not, as its name would suggest, a cadre of Doc…
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Celia Jenkins
Have been contacted by Celia Jenkins, who is currently studying Creative Writing, and writing about Guernsey. Here is one of her poems… An Introduction to the Island of Guernsey, with interludes of Patois What can I say of a local girl?Well it’s clear al a la langue bian pendue.(That’s having the gift of the gab,…
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Sam Thompson
Sam is one of those writers who has fallen under the spell of Guernsey, and has sent me some of his work. I am really delighted that lately more and more writers with a Guernsey connection are becoming interested in the Anthology. Here is an extract from Ste Marguerite de la Forêt (2006) is the…
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Creative gulfs: UK, France and US
I have been working with two agencies lately. One is a French-owned agency, and I am writing English copy for French companies hoping to infiltrate the UK market. The other is a US-owned healthcare agency, where your creative ideas must be run past creative directors in the New York office. This has given me a…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 