Manx Bard News Today

The annual competition helps to promote the poetry talent on the island

Sacrifice sculpture in Ramsey, opening of HOME, new member for Arts Council and another bardic poem

Boakesey Closs is the ninth bard

Boakesey Closs has been unveiled as the Ninth Manx Bard.

Boakesey Closs has been unveiled as the Ninth Manx Bard.

Inauguration took place yesterday

Michael Manning is the eighth Manx Bard. He left school at 15 with no qualifications and has spent most of his adult life with people who are homeless or in insecure accommodation in the island, primarily through the work of the late charity Graih. He is currently a bank healthcare assistant at Noble’s. He is the author of No King but God and is good at washing up. The ninth Manx Bard will be unveiled on Sunday.

It was a great surprise to be selected as the eighth Manx Bard last summer and I have spent the past year in a state of somewhat dazed astonishment.

It starts with excitement and celebration and ends with death - so why do we call this week Holy ? And we visit a church that's at the crossroads - in more ways than one!

Sunday, 13 December 2020 - Local People Installation of the new Manx Bard Annie Kissack at Moorehouse Farm Rushen.Annie Kissack installed as the new Manx Bard. Click to buy photos from our newspaper ➔ Printed and digital download photos available Writer, musician, composer and linguist Annie Kissack was named as the fifth Manx Bard in 2018. This month she shares one of her winter-themed poems, along with a little explanation of what inspired her to write it I’m delighted to have ...