Autobiographical – Page 2 – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

A one-way ticket to Palookaville and other random observations

Peter Kenny

June 13, 2015

There are all kinds of romantic ideas about how you should behave as an artist. But starving in a garret, which I have done in the past, was not for me. Just recently, pockets full of air after moving house, I had a sequence of six freelance assignments being cancelled one after another – all for legitimate and…

Autobiographical, Music, Real life

AnotherSun, Helen Russell, Opera, poetry, Social Media, worry

When a ghost looked at me

Peter Kenny

February 10, 2015

People don’t want to talk about ghosts. One night at university I was staying with my girlfriend. She had just fallen asleep but I was still wide awake. After a while I noticed the figure standing in front of the wardrobe. It was a young woman looking at herself in the wardrobe mirror and when I propped myself up…

Autobiographical

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Ghosts, Hamlet, Henry James, McBeth, Paranormal, Paranormal Reality Shows, The Turn of the Screw, William Shakespeare

How I stopped being a genius

Peter Kenny

June 17, 2012

Let me tell you that until the age of 29 I was a tortured genius.To help other people understand this, I lived in a squalid bedsit. I was also permanently unhealthy in that way typical of geniuses, and I spent my nights barking my tortured, misunderstood poetry into the smoky fug of doggerel-filled rooms. Don’t…

a writer’s life, Autobiographical, Genius, Poetry

Amy Winehouse, Byron, Dr Janet Summerton, Genius, Keywords, Oscar Wilde, Raymond Williams, T.S.Eliot