Guernsey Chronicles

Sent away from a bomb scarred London after her parents' separation, poet Anita Harmon vividly remembers the years she spent as a child on the Channel Island of Guernsey in early 1950s. In a series of poems that offer us windows onto a now vanished world, the poet conjures images of her past: her best friend Maggie, her dog Jason, her Granny - born in India under the British Raj - Aunty Lois and Aunty Sis whose husbands died in the 1918 War, and a gallery of memories, people and places that evoke not only the sea, the cliffs and the green fields Guernsey, but our own childhood dreams.