Richard Fleming
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Richard Fleming and Jane Mosse
Have just seen Richard and Jane for the second time in a short visit to the island (which co-incided with my birthday). We met for coffee in the afternoon as we seem to drink lots of wine when we meet up. In fact one of our first meetings, which with three poets (and my mother)…
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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…