Poetry – Page 3 – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Launching Truths: A Telltale Press Anthology

Peter Kenny

April 20, 2018

7:30 Wednesday 25th April Venue The John Harvey Tavern Bear Yard (off Cliffe High Street), Lewes BN7 2AN. So just a quick note here about the launch of TRUTHS – A Telltale Press Anthology, edited by Sarah Barnsley, Robin Houghton, and myself. Expect the anthology’s launch to contain readings, a few drinks and much optimism.…

Blowing my own trumpet, Book Launch, Poetry, Telltale Press

Anthology, Book Launch, Hannah Clare, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Telltale Press, TRUTHS: A Telltale Press Anthology

Keeping Guernsey Legends vibrantly alive

Peter Kenny

March 18, 2018

Guernsey Legends by Jane Mosse & Frances Lemmon, Blue Ormer Publishing The stories in the gorgeously-produced Guernsey Legends by Jane Mosse and Frances Lemmon are not remote reconstructions from some antique past. One story, about an enormous spectre of a nanny goat, played a real part in my own island childhood. Le Coin de la Biche was a…

Guernsey, Guernsey Literature, Painters,, Poetry

Blue Ormer Publishing, Edith Carey, Frances Lemmon, Guernsey, Guernsey legends, Jane Mosse, Marie de Garis, Sir Edgar McCullough

Between beauty and terror

Peter Kenny

March 5, 2018

Thus the blue hour comes by Tess Jolly, Indigo Dreams Publishing I love Tess Jolly’s poems, and I posted my look at her first collection Touchpapers here. Her latest, Thus the blue hour comes from Indigo Pamphlets confirmed the promise of her first pamphlet with what is, in my view, a beautifully coherent and even stronger collection.…

Poetry

Indigo Pamphlets, Rilke, Tess Jolly, Thus the blue hour comes

Poetry omnivore

Peter Kenny

February 21, 2018

For me, it’s all been about poetry so far this year. Sarah Barnsley, Robin Houghton and I have been putting together an anthology from Telltale, about which there will be more news shortly. Meanwhile I’ve been editing my own 24-poem, pamphlet-length collection, and have been lucky enough to receive excellent advice and a good deal…

Poetry, Reading, Readings

Antony Mair, Charlotte Gann, Jacqueline Saphra, James Sheard, Jane Hirshfield, Ocean Vuong, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Stephen Bone, Telltale Press, William Blake

‘Oumuamua and identity

Peter Kenny

January 10, 2018

‘Oumuamua was a new word for me. It means scout or messenger in Hawaiian, and was given to the first object we’re certain to have come from beyond our own solar system. Wikipedia says it is a reddish object around 230 by 35 meters. To me, vulgarian that I am, it looks like an interstellar poo.…

Poetry, social media, Writing

‘Oumuamua, Intentionality, Rachel Dolezal, T.S.Eliot

A pre-Christmas ramble

Peter Kenny

December 8, 2017

My double life requires me to switch from working in advertising agencies, back to picking up the threads of my creative life and vice versa. My most recent agency stint was with a lovely crew at DDB Remedy in London, which culminated in six days in Austria. The work was a bit full on, however,…

a writer’s life, Peter Kenny The Writer Ltd., Poetry, Travel, Working

Charlotte Gann, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Stephen Bone, Vienna

Weird to win

Peter Kenny

November 8, 2017

I won the small Happenstance poetry competition about dreams, with a short poem called Formication. I don’t win competitions: fact. So it felt weird to be contacted by Helena Nelson at Happenstance, who publishes my pal Charlotte Gann among others, to be told I’d won a small competition. It’s made me have all these wild thoughts.…

Blowing my own trumpet, Poetry

Charlotte Gann, Formication, Happenstance, Helena Nelson, J.O. Morgan, winning

Poetry readings with Pighog and Telltale coming soon

Peter Kenny

September 28, 2017

I have two poetry readings in the pipeline in about a month’s time. In Brighton, and London. Here are the deets: N.B. DATE CHANGE Wednesday October 25, 2017 7:30 pm — The Nightingale Room, Grand Central, 29-30 Surrey St, Brighton BN1 3PA Pighog poetry evening with Charlotte Gann, Peter Kenny and another guest TBA – Tickets on the door…

Blowing my own trumpet, Performance, Poetry, Readings

Abigail Parry, Catherine Smith, Charlotte Gann, Clare Best, Innis McAllister, Robin Houghton, Telltale Press

‘1,000 miles from sea’ in London Grip

Peter Kenny

September 1, 2017

My poem ‘1,000 miles from sea’ is published in London Grip this morning. I wrote this after visiting Chad, and seeing its struggle against drought and hunger. This poem is about how the conditions there brought my personal struggle with religion to a head. I’m very grateful to Michael Bartholomew-Biggs the editor at London Grip.…

Blowing my own trumpet, Poetry

1000 miles from sea, Chad, Grenfell Tower, London Grip, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Naomi Foyle, Peter Kenny

Minotaur

Peter Kenny

July 16, 2017

I don’t dwell much on past projects. I’m always focused on the next thing. On Friday I had a few beers with Glen Capra, and this reminded me of Glen and I recording my poem Minotaur, which had been set to music by Matthew Pollard, in one take back in 2011. I made this video…

Matthew Pollard, Music, Poetry

Brighton, Glen Capra, Matthew Pollard, Minotaur, Peter Kenny