Guernsey International Literary Festival must have some of
the best prizes in the country. The first three get cash but they and another
three plus winners of certain categories such as school, Channel Islands
residency also get their poems on pop up posters at the airport which will be
moved to places round the island during the year plus all those then get their
poems on the buses for the year.
And that’s not all. The winning three poems also get a
painting based on their work by professional artists and this year the art
teachers involved in schools on the island decided that art students would also
interpret their poems so in a gallery they had around 10 paintings based on a
poet’s work.
The four days of the Festival are packed with lectures,
workshops, music and film. Well worth a visit next year.
It also has Herm Island aka Paradise three miles of its
coast.
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