Catriona Stares
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Appointment with Venus
My friend Catriona lent me this 1951 novel by Jerrard Tickell, an Irish novelist (1905-1966). Appointment with Venus was made into a film the same year, with a cast which included David Niven, Kenneth More, Glynis Johns and others, and shot in Pinewood Studios and on Sark. The story features an imaginary Channel Isle named…
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Meeting Guernsey Arts Commission
Went to Guernsey in June and had a meeting with the Guernsey Arts Commission, about creating an Anthology of Guernsey writing. Liked the Chairman Tony Gallienne right off the bat. The meeting was inconclusive, but they were encouraging. I spent a couple of hours in the Priaulx Library where I met Amanda Bennett, the Chief…
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Creating an anthology for Guernsey
So to catch up on recent activity. I returned from a short trip to my former home of Guernsey recently where I presented to the Arts Commission, who were interested in the project. So I am shortly about to kick the project off, and have bought AnthologyofGuernsey.com for a song. While I was over, I…
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Poems on the Buses, Guernsey
I lived in Guernsey as a child. It is my spiritual home which I still visit at least once a year. Recently there has been a mini artistic revolution. Last year local writers have been encouraged to come out into the light, and have their work published in an initiative called Pens & Lens. This…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 