Peter Kenny

Magnificent Grace — now in paperback!

Peter Kenny

January 23, 2020

Magnificent Grace paperback now available here Few moments in life are like popping open a box of books you happen to have written. More accurately I should say written by my alter ego Skelton Yawngrave III. Skelton was wildly pleased with himself. Though cheerful, I remain cautiously optimistic. Properly armed with my 322 page book,…

a writer’s life, Children’s fiction, Prose, Publishing, Skelton Yawngrave

Magnificent Grace, Self publishing, Skelton Yawngrave

Powerful work from Clare Best and Matthew G. Rees

Peter Kenny

January 9, 2020

Here are a two things I have read lately, that I would highly recommend. Clare Best The Missing List I’ve met Clare several times, but bought this book without realising that its subject matter was in fact a memoir about child abuse, published in 2018. I discovered it to be a beautiful patchwork of impressions, of…

Autobiographical, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories

Clare Best, Matthew G. Rees, The Missing List, The Snow Leopard of Moscow

Sin Cycle in E·ratio

Peter Kenny

January 4, 2020

Happy new year! I already have enormous amounts to be thankful for this year. Chief of these is the editorship of Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, the editor of E·ratio Postmodern Poetry Journal based in New York. Gregory’s own work, as I have written about here is extraordinary, and challenging and should be explored. E·ratio itself…

Poetry, Uncategorized

Charlotte Gann, E·ratio, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Infant Sorrow, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, William Blake

Exploring Janet Sutherland’s poetry

Peter Kenny

November 6, 2019

There are perhaps only a couple-of-dozen poets I find myself returning to time and again. In the last year, however, Janet Sutherland has become one of them. I own her four collections from Shearsman Books, which are, in order of publication, Burning the Heartwood, Hangman’s Acre, Bone Monkey, and Home Farm. Each of these books contains an embarrassment of…

Poetry, Reading, Reviews

Bone Monkey, Burning the Heartwood, Hangman’s Acre, Home Farm, Janet Sutherland

Magnificent Grace, by Skelton Yawngrave

Peter Kenny

October 9, 2019

If you happen to know a child of 9-12 who likes reading, and want a tale set in the run up to Halloween and Guy Fawkes night… then I have a full length story (a.k.a. my kindle experiment) for them. It’s creepy, funny, magical and dystopian and is about trying to bring together a divided…

a writer’s life, Art, Blowing my own trumpet, Book Launch, Children’s fiction, Fiction, Prose

Magnificent Grace, Skelton Yawngrave

Supernatural Tales 41, Autumn 2019

Peter Kenny

October 2, 2019

As a horror and weird fiction newbie, I’m delighted to have my first story The Inheritor in Supernatural Tales, edited tirelessly by David Longhorn. My tale is set in Guernsey, and draws on my childhood experiences of living in my Grandparent’s haunted 16th century granite cottage. The story concerns the return of an exile, a…

Fiction, Guernsey, Guernsey Literature, Prose, Short Stories

David Longhorn, Peter Kenny, Supernatural Tales, The Inheritor, Victor Hugo

The Dream Home

Peter Kenny

September 25, 2019

Very happy to have a new dark tale in the Autumn 2019 94th edition of the literary magazine The Frogmore Papers, edited by Jeremy Page. There are two other stories in this edition: A Citadel by Natalya Lowndes, and A Few Brief Words by Andrew Blair. I found both had a lovely balance of humour…

a writer’s life, Blowing my own trumpet, Horror, Poetry, Prose

A Citadel, A Few Brief Words, Andrew Blair, Jeremy Page, Laura Chalar, Natalya Lowndes, Peter Kenny, Stephen Bone, The Dream Home, The Frogmore Papers, The Nineties Revisited

Glen Capra

Peter Kenny

September 13, 2019

Like many of his friends, I was distressed to learn of Glen Capra’s death on 29th August in Greece. I was one of a group who regularly went for beers in The Evening Star with Glen when he made one of his regular visits back to Brighton after he had settled in Kavala. Glen was…

Clameur, Matthew Pollard, Music, This Concert Will Fall In Love With You

Clameur, Glen Capra, Matthew Pollard, Piano, This concert will fall in love with you, Three Portraits for Poet and Piano

What You Look For

Peter Kenny

August 31, 2019

My short story What You Look For has just been published in Horla. The story is loosely based on a house I shared as a student in Leamington Spa — with what I hope is a horrific twist. I did once see what I think of as a ghost, which appeared as I describe in…

a writer’s life, Autobiographical, Blowing my own trumpet, Horror, Prose

Edvard Munch, Horla, panic attacks, Short Story, What You Look For

Home thoughts from abroad

Peter Kenny

August 9, 2019

So at last found a bit of time to update this blog, as you can see from the photo, taken by my brother, of me tapping away on a terrace in Sicily. I am here taking a break with family. I love Sicily, and the terrace is quick with lizards, and has geckos crawling about…

a writer’s life, Horror, Poetry

poetry, Supernatural Horror, The Frogmore Papers, The House of Hidden Hope, The Poetry Village