Guernsey Literature
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‘A Return to Sarnia’ has its premiere
Chiara Beebe’s piece A Return To Sarnia, was given its premiere by the Guernsey Sinfonietta on Wednesday 6th August in St Peter Port’s Town Church. It was conducted by Sebastian Grand, and featured an authoritative young baritone Casey-Joe Rumens. It was spellbinding. It made my hair stand on end. It was an amazing thing to…
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La Gran’mère, a Guernsey goddess
I am an idolater. This is not something many of us can say in this godless age. My Goddess is somewhere between three and five thousand years old. She was hewn from a large lump of granite until, around the time of the Romans, she was carved again, adding the garments and, possibly, the face she wears now. She…
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Choking on potato peel
Just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (and completed by Annie Barrows) and I am trying to work out why it makes me grind my teeth. I can see why the book has done so well. As an epistolary novel, it is easy to read, and there is no…
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Literature in Guernsey – an untold story
I have been working towards creating an Anthology of literature about Guernsey, as I believe the island’s best kept secret is its literary tradition. I think there are three sources of this literature. The first that written by Guernsey people about their own island (such as G.B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer Le Page). The…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 