Welcome
Alice Allen was born in London, grew up in Jersey in the Channel Islands and lives in the UK.
Alice’s collection Daylight of Seagulls is informed by the experience of her Jersey family who lived through the Nazi occupation, and the stories she would regularly hear when spending time on her grandparents’ farm as a child, as well as the Jèrriais language, her grandmother’s first language.

FEATURED POEM
A SEA FOG
delicate and tasty
tunnels through the lanes,
resting in the hedges
on the elms’ tight branches
filling up the fields.
A full, articulate fog –
droplets formed around
a nucleus of salt.
Out of this pink hover
a child pedals down the lane
on hose-pipe tyres,
a forbidden news-sheet
in a pouch under her blouse,
an empty bottle in her basket.
Three times a week her parents
shush her off to Mrs Clegg’s.
Milk for news. News for milk.
The bike is cumbersome
but on the way home
there are trinkets to find
in the half-hidden hedges,
the crumbling mud banks
and she whispers their shapes to me
now with her stiff wrinkled fingers:
pennywort, shale rock,
a play ball of moss.
News & Notes

POSTED ON 30/08/21
Yellow Lichen, Pink Sea Thrift
During the lockdown of 2020, unable to make my annual summer visit to Jersey where I grew up, I asked my school friend Lucy Allchurch to send me extra…
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POSTED ON 27/08/20
People Make Jersey – Our Stories of Immigration
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, 24 June 2020 – 31 December 2020 Find out more about the exibition The Jersey Museum reopened its doors in June after re…
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POSTED ON 27/08/20
Guillemot Press Eel Fest 2020
Hear me read my poem about conger eel soup, a Jersey delicacy, ‘La Soupe D’Andgulle’ from my collection Daylight of Seagulls as part of Guillemot Pres…
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