Venue: The Hub

These sessions for part of the festival’s education programme and are being run by Jo Dowding. They are aimed at primary level children.

Venue: The Hub
Price: £4/£2

Bloney Good Times and its follow-up More Bloney Good Times are local books that have each proved massive hits with the Guernsey public, and their humorous and often bittersweet tales take the reader back down life’s road to a happier and more carefree island of yesteryear.

Come along and meet the authors, four Guernsey girls whose reminiscences of bygone days will make you sigh with nostalgia and certainly weep with laughter.

Venue: The Hub
Price: £4/£2

ISLANDS have become icons for the imagination and dreams of escape. True islanders, though, see their social and cultural lives erode. My writing aims to both uphold cherished memories yet look to the future and bring Guernsey’s way of life to the modern world – to face new challenges for the resourceful people of our island.

Venue: Les Cotils

The White Horse Writers of Wiltshire are holding a writing course, open to all writers, at Les Cotils from May 12th-14th, in association with the Guernsey Literary Festival.

Try Jill Sharp’s Life Writing Workshops or Play Writing with Ade Morris.

Logan Lewis-Proudlock offers an Editing workshop while local writer, Pippa McCathie, has plans for Crime writing.

Richard Fleming and Peter Kenny will entertain you with cool Poetry Reading.

Brochures are available from the Guille-Alle Library, Cobo Village shop, St. Peters’ Post Office and the Guernsey Press Shop – or e-mail aurignybelle@tiscali.co.uk for details.

Venue: The Hub
Price: £3/£2

“Not since the extraordinarily poetic Book of Ebenezer le Page has a single volume made the soul of the island so unremittingly its focus.” (Professor Edward Chaney)

Join poets, Richard Fleming and Peter Kenny on a magical tour of Guernsey as they read from their highly acclaimed book of poems, A Guernsey Double.

Peter an exiled Guernseyman now living in Brighton and Richard, an Ulsterman who escaped to Guernsey nearly twenty years ago, each bring their own poetic consciousness to the emotional and geographical map of this magical island.

Venue: The Hub
Price: Free

Based on Joey the Yellow Plane Adventure books by Peter Seabourne, this is an interactive telling of one of Joey’s many adventures.  The performance includes props so that young children can help tell the story.  Suitable for Under 7s.

Kindly supported by Aurigny Air Services

Venue: The Luna
Price: Free

Each day of the festival a group of local writers will be on hand in the Luna to sign and discuss their books.

Today it will be: Dr N. Le Poidevin, Hazel Tomlinson, Samantha Crossley and Dr Jason Monaghan.

Venue: Victor Hugo House
Price: £6

Spending 19 years of his life in exile could have weakened Victor Hugo, but the poet never lost faith in the future.

By writing his novels and poetry, he never stopped claiming his opposition to the death penalty and made clear his belief in the need for freedom.

The writer of « Les Misérables » seems to have also been a man of action within the Guernsey community. In 1862, he decided to offer a meal to the poorest children of the island every week; a way of incorporating his social views into real life.

This talk will be in English

Venue: Candie Museum Theatre
Price: £6.00 ( CineGuernsey members), £7.50 non – members, £5.00 Students and concessions

CineGuernsey takes great pleasure in presenting this outstanding film which gives a very modern insight into the life of Keats, one of Britain’s most talented poets, and specifically the last three years of his short life. It was directed by Jane Campion, who wrote the screenplay and was inspired by the biography of Keats by Andrew Motion, who served as a script consultant on the film. The title of the British/ Australian/ French co-production is a reference to a sonnet by Keats named ” Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art”
It is a moving and beautifully filmed portait of love and loss, a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet and the lovely girl next door Fanny Brawne. At first at odds with one another, he mocks her love of fashion and she has no time for poetry but the relationship develops with increasing intensity.
Campion is renowned for her film The Piano but this is arguably the best of her career.
2009. Cert: PG. 119 minutes. Director: Jane Campion

Venue: Priaulx Library
Price: £10

The inaugural Guernsey Poetry Festival is interrupted by the terrible murder of the Festival Director at the Priaulx Library! Whodunnit? Use your sleuthing skills to follow the plot and track down the murderer in this intriguing mystery by poet Sara-Jane Arbury.