A POET from Jersey is being given the chance to perform works honouring the language and place that shaped them in front of audiences from across Europe at a festival in Brussels.
The Creative Island Partnership has invited submissions from Jersey-based poets, one of whom will be selected as the Island’s entry to Transpoesie 2026.
Dr Adam Perchard, who represented Jersey at the 2024 festival, said it was “an extraordinary, transformative experience”.
They added: “I met and exchanged ideas with some incredible poets from across Europe – poets writing in more than a dozen languages about war, trauma, healing, feminisms, injustices, culture, history, and the gaps between meaning and unmeaning. It was a joyful, fiercely stimulating time.”
Jersey’s representative will get financial support to attend the festival and opportunities to perform up to three of their poems at events in Brussels.
The 2026 festival is due to take place from 17 to 19 September under the theme of “Language and Place”.
Entrants should email creativeisland@gov.je. They must be over 18, live in Jersey, and be able to travel unaccompanied. They should include examples of their previous work.
