CANDIE CRUSH

Recognition and acclaim come infrequently to those of us who write verse and publication is even more rare, but when they happen, often like the proverbial buses, they arrive in twos and threes.
So it was with a handful of poems I wrote for two separate arts projects, on the subject of Occupation and Liberation and Guernsey's experience of both during World War II.
Two poems found their way into a newly published hardback book, In Loving Memory, while two of the others appeared on posters in St Peter Port's beautiful Candie Gardens.
Candie Gardens serves as home of the island's principal museum and also houses the Arts Commission's Greenhouse Gallery and it was there that the long-awaited launch of In Loving Memory took place.
Here are two of the poems, one on an outdoor poster, the other, rather more artfully mounted, on the wall of the Greenhouse Gallery. 
I'm not sure where the butterfly came from but it seemed happy to stay. 
      

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