Peter Kenny
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protesting too much
Not often you get to talk to a leading contemporary poet for a couple of hours, about your own work. I went to a one-to-one poetry Surgery with Brendan Cleary who was looking at my manuscript, and offering a critique. It was a very valuable experience. And it has been a long while since another…
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Gus Christie Glyndebourne piece
Here’s my piece on Gus Christie for ON TRACK. A very nice man he was too.
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Glyndebourne
Lucky enough to get an interview with Gus Christie who is executive chairman at Glyndebourne, which will appear in Southern ON TRACK shortly. And a very nice man he was too. I’d never been to Glyndebourne before, and it is in a beautiful area that made me think of Ralph Vaughan Williams and skylarks. We…
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Stratus Coaching
Pleased to see that Anna Golawski’s Stratus Coaching business is now up and running. Anna’s help was absolutely invaluable, when I started my own business at the end of last year. She helped me define what success would look like on my own terms. I think this is really important as it is all too…
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my podcast
This is a podcast of me reading Under Another Sun for June. It’s a bit of a pilot, but hopefully still enjoyable.
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Orange, and bread branding
Am currently engaged in a couple of branding projects. As ever, client confidentiality prevents me from going into too many details. One job is for a line of French bread, and is really fun as I have never branded a food before. Branding is a bit of a dark art. Some brands, like Orange, have…
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moo.com
Not often given to advocating products, but moo.com are pretty excellent. Just got some mini business cards made by them. The are very economical, of good quality, and you can upload any image you want to form the back of the card. I used a slight crop of my little drawing the nightwork, as one…
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Pens & Lens, Guernsey
Pens & Lens is great. I flew over to read at the opening, and it was the first event in Guernsey that I have been to with such a literary buzz. The newly formed Guernsey Arts Commission are behind it, and with any luck it can only spark something of a literary burgeoning in the…
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The Straight Story, with music by Animat at the Komedia
Off to the Komedia to see David Lynch’s Straight Story. I have to declare an interest: Lynch is a big hero of mine. This film is an absolutely wonderful and touching portrayal of Alvin Straight, a frail old WW2 veteran. Unable to drive due to bad eyes and legs, Alvin sets off on an epic…
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salmagundi days
The daywork for your favourite scribe has been a bit of a melange lately. Here are just some of the things I have been up to… A spot of agency freelancing again in London agency, writing about IT. This is familiar ground for me, having spent years working for IBM and Dell. The language of…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 