Posted by Geraint Jennings on 02 October, 2003 at 22:34:11:
L'Héthitage dé Jèrri a organnîsé eune compétition d'poésie pouor la Fais'sie d'cidre ch't'année et nou peut vaie qu'les entrées en Jèrriais sont encouothagies:
POMME POÈME
Poetry competition
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 9th October & Apple Day on the 21st
October, The Jersey Heritage Trust is pleased to announce a poetry writing
competition "Pomme Poème".
The competition is open to three age groups:
* Children up to 11 years old (Primary school)
* Young people aged 12 to 18 years old (Secondary school)
* Adults
All the poems can be written in English, Jèrriais or French and will be
displayed at the Jersey Heritage Trust's cider event "La Fais'sie d'Cidre"
at Hamptonne Country Life Museum. Cider maker, author & poet James Crowden
is one of the special guests who will be performing at Hamptonne over the
weekend of 25th & 26th October. On each day he will be giving a talk on the
history of cider, supervising a workshop on apple tasting plus reciting
some of his own & other peoples' poems. He will select winners from the
poetry competition entries.
Jersey has a rich history of apple growing & cider making. In the 17th
century, orchards covered over a quarter of the land in Jersey. Apples have
a reputation for being good for your health & over the centuries have been
associated with love. Apples are often used in still life paintings &
drawings. It was an apple that inspired Sir Isaac Newton to discover his
theory of gravity.
The Apple Poem can be about any aspect of apples, today or in the past..
* How apples taste - sweet, bitter or sour
* The noise that apples make - the "thud" when falling to the ground or the
"crunch" when being bitten into
* What apples look like, round or irregular...big Bramley cookers or small
Cox's Orange Pippins...red, yellow, green
* What apples are called - there are hundreds of varieties & many of the
old Jersey cider apples have unusual French names
* What apples are used for - cooked in pies & crumbles, or in a sauce with
roast pork; made into drinks - juice, cider or Calvados
* How apple trees look at different times of the year - blossoming in
spring, full of fruit in late summer, surrounded by windfalls in autumn,
bare in winter
* Apples in customs, history & mythology - tempting Adam & Eve, William
Tell shooting at an apple on his son's head, apples curing warts, an apple
predicting a future spouse
* "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"
..the choice is yours - whatever it is about apples that inspires you to
write a poem, short or long!
You may also like to illustrate your words...
Please send your entry, either typed or written on one side of paper no
larger than A3, to:
Pomme Poème
Jersey Museum
The Weighbridge
St Helier
Jersey JE2 3NF
Please make sure that you supply your full name, age & address (& the
school you attend, if applicable)
Poems must arrive at the Jersey Museum by Apple Day - Tuesday 21st October.
Winners will be announced on the second day of la Fais'sie d'Cidre - on
Sunday 26th October.
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