La Fête dé Noué

Feeling festive now La Fête dé Noué has been launched with the switch-on of the lights yesterday evening.

Fête dé Noué @StHelierJsy tonight's switch-on: fireworks blaze over the Royal Square pic.twitter.com/WKQCumQmfs

— Geraint Jennings (@GeraintJennings) November 22, 2018

Thank you to everyone who came to the Christmas lights switch on! We hope you had a magical evening!! 🎄🎉⭐️ pic.twitter.com/0eTeyPOZ11

— St Helier Events (@StHelierEvents) November 22, 2018

Fête dé Noué @StHelierJsy tonight's switch-on with fireworks from @FortRegent pic.twitter.com/wo4rz5CzNr

— Geraint Jennings (@GeraintJennings) November 22, 2018

End of the Great War 100 years ago

This piece was commissioned for an exhibition (& book) to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War (text is in the book 100 Poems):

Exhibition 2014:

This poem, written against the background of the centenary of the start of the First World War, is more symbolic about birds and war.



GW de Carteret wrote (published 12/12/1914): "La patrie est en dangi et l'rêsultat d'chutte dgèrre-chîn s'sa ressenti par vos d'cendants pouor pus d'un siècl'ye". This sentence inspired this poem: