Monday, December 8, 2014

100 POEMS



I was pleased to be one of the 15 poets set the creative challenge by Jersey Arts Centre to contribute a new unpublished poem for this exhibition in November 2014 - part of the 10th Human Rights Festival.




The writers were asked to consider the 100th anniversary of the First World War as a starting point, but our poem could cover any aspect of war these past 100 years, or conflict resolution or peace.




The poems will be part of an anthology called 100 Poems and were very powerful and starkly beautiful on the walls of the Berni Gallery.




Now only the ghosts of our words linger in the space...