Peter Kenny
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Auschwitz Museum
An unexpected and moving honour. My poem “Heidegger in the Forest” has been selected for a second edition of an anthology of poetry published by the Auschwitz Museum. Here’s a link to the old one. My poem was about how the German philosopher Martin Heidegger avoided speaking to the Jewish poet Paul Celan after the…
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The Brighton Moment at the Komedia
People who live in Brighton think Brighton is big and clever. Judging by the number of scribes who live here and write about it, this big and cleverness will live on long after the current crop is being squabbled over by the seagulls. Having evolved in three years from a cosy fringe event at Joogleberry…
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Sensodyne Pronamel
Now, I have absolutely no problem with the Sensodyne toothpaste. In fact I personally use it, and would happily recommend it. But what I object to is the harm their TV advertising does to my teeth. For I am compelled to wildly gnash them as I watch the TV advertising for Sensodyne Pronamel. They are…
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a portfolio career
My friend Janet, who also doubles as an unofficial mentor, has for a long time been talking to me about portfolio careers. On a very basic level, I’ve always like the idea of not putting all your eggs in one basket. It seems prudent and feels less vulnerable if one of your activities suddenly goes…
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lights, camera, hack-tion
Filmed briefly today for a mood video talking passionately about what it’s like as a writer working with a charity. Mood videos are interesting beasts. Usually they are played before an audience to get them excited and focused. A mood video, for example, can also work well in a pitch scenario. It allows you to…
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the vanity of hacks
A text from my friend Spooner: Are you a journo-whore now? alerted me to the fact that Southern On Track mag was now out. So on my way to work picked up a copy. I’ve got three photos (although nowhere near my best ones) in it too. It’s also online, and here are my interviews…
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ending well
I am always banging on about ending well. For example I have recently been working for my old agency on a freelance basis. And although this has been a bit weird at times, it has generally been good fun. I consciously tried to end as well as I could when I left a few months…
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back On Track
Another interview this morning, for On Track. This time on the phone. Fortunately my interviewee Thurstan Crockett, Brighton’s Head of Sustainability Environmental Policy,was a former journalist and interviewed very well. When people are masters of their own brief, it is much easier just to step back and let them download. They, after all, know far…
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interviews and mind maps
Off today to London to interview Andrew Comben, the new Chief Executive of the Brighton Festival for On Track magazine. He hasn’t yet started the job, and is still working in the Wigmore Hall. I had to zoom up to the smoke. Quite nice to lurk in the west end and rubberneck at, for example,…
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pitching in
Called into my old agency to team up with my former art director, and lend a hand with a new business pitch. Pitching is the most fun about agency work. In a masochistic way I have grown to like the adrenaline surge of the pitch presentation. You get a real sense of team too. And…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 