The Jersey Bookworm and Poets Corner was opened to a big crowd of authors and friends at Jersey’s Harbour Gallery on Saturday 8th February, by popular author Peter James.
Art in the Frame Foundation, which runs the Harbour Gallery, was astounded to discover how many writers and poets are on the island.
Pat Robson said: “As a charity set up to promote local up-and-coming artists and to work in the field of art education and wellbeing/mental health, we felt that a ‘hub’ was needed for these local writers and poets to come together and work with some of the artists.
Three students from Beaulieu school wrote a book for their Young Enterprise project and managed to sell twenty copies in an hour and a half.
Over the Christmas holiday, an area in the Harbour Gallery was transformed into The Jersey Book Worm and Poets Corner, stocking books written by people living on or from the island. It will also act as a place for book launches, book clubs and readings. The first book launch is already booked for September.
Pat added: “Our first workshop was a combination of creating a little ‘Zine’ with artist Justine Williams and writing poetry for the Zine with local poet Juliette Hart. This will be repeated on April 26th – 27th, with bookings being taken now”.
The Harbour Gallery is open 7 days a week 9.30am – 5.30pm and situated at 19 The Quay, Commercial Buildings, St Helier. There is on-road parking and it’s just two minutes walk from the tunnel.
