Poetry – Page 6 – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

The darkness is real

Peter Kenny

September 25, 2016

Noir by Charlotte Gann published by HappenStance Press Noir is a word with a freight of associations, but in the title poem of Charlotte Gann’s first full collection the protagonist enters what seems to be a cinema where ‘I only ever catch a moon-thin glimpse /of the projectionist’s face…’ This fits happily with the film noir atmosphere in many of these poems.…

Poetry, Reviews

Charlotte Gann, Happenstance, Noir

A new play, poetry and other news…

Peter Kenny

September 21, 2016

I have been a bit AWOL from cyberspace this summer. A blissful two weeks in the south of France with my wife. I had been using Duolingo to try to refresh my French before I went. Not that the French I was trying to refresh was any good in the first place. However I tried to…

a writer’s life, Blogging, Poetry, Publishing, Telltale Press, Theatre

A Glass of Nothing, Beth Symons, Charlotte Gann, Jess Mookherjee, John McCullough, Judy Brown, Négritude, Sarah Barnsley, We Three Kings

Peter Caton’s Chad photos

Peter Kenny

August 5, 2016

Some of Peter Caton’s photograph from our trip to Chad are here on the Guardian Online. Pete’s shot of many of the people of the the village meeting under a good tree is typical of his excellent work. For the people he captures here, there is plenty to discuss: an appalling drought, extreme hunger that threatens the…

Peter Kenny The Writer Ltd., Photography, Poetry, Travel

Chad, Peter Caton

The Interpreter’s House, a home from home

Peter Kenny

July 24, 2016

Since meeting Martin Malone, editor of The Interpreter’s House, last year at a reading we were giving in Lewes, and hearing him read excellently (and pyrotechnically as his folder of poems accidentally caught alight) I have finally got my act together to become a subscriber. In fact I tend to share my limited subscriptions budget around among…

Poetry, Telltale Press, The Nightwork

Martin Malone, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber, The Interpreter’s House

Off the bench

Peter Kenny

July 13, 2016

Forgot to mention here that I was a last minute substitute for a poorly Siegfried Baber on a recent Telltale and Friends night at Telltale’s old stomping ground of the Poetry Cafe. A quick reshuffle meant that Robin Houghton introduced the event instead of me. Uncharacteristically I was not really in the mood for doing a reading, but…

Performance, Poetry, Readings, Telltale Press

Jess Mookherjee, John McCullough, Postcard from Ithaca, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Telltale Press

The Remembering Cliffs in The Island Review

Peter Kenny

June 20, 2016

Always nice to see a poem I wrote years ago, crop up again. Of all poems I have written this is a firm favourite, and comes straight from the heart. I wrote it in my late 20s and it has been collected in A Guernsey Double. The photo is me a couple of years ago on…

A Guernsey Double, Poetry, Uncategorized

The Island Review, The Remembering Cliffs

Telltale & Friends reading 7th July

Peter Kenny

June 13, 2016

Just a quick note on here about a Telltale & Friends reading coming soon. I shall be hosting the evening. A great bill… First, and hotter than a sizzling hot thing, is John McCullough right now. He’s a long-term Telltale friend, and his spanking new collection Spacecraft is already going down a storm. On the night we’ll also showcase Telltale’s latest recruit Jess Mookherjee, whose collection…

Poetry, Readings, Telltale Press

Jessica Mookherjee, John McCullough, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber, The Poetry Cafe

The story of your eyes

Peter Kenny

June 9, 2016

Met up with my great friend Matt Pollard recently, with whom I collaborated on the high concept piece This Concert Will Fall In Love With You in the Brighton Fringe back in 2010. It was a strange idea in retrospect, that a concert could be haunted by an entity with a voice who fell in…

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

Brighton Fringe, Clameur, Matthew Pollard, The story of your eyes, This concert will fall in love with you

More on project 154

Peter Kenny

May 22, 2016

I received my copy of the Live Canon Project 154 book a day or so ago. All of Shakespeare’s sonnets, with a response by 154 contemporary poets including friends like Robin Houghton, Antony Mair, Sue Rose and many more. As a rule this kind of intertextuality isn’t my bag. Nor do I need prompts for what…

Poetry, Reading

Abigail Parry, Antony Mair, leoemercer, Mo Jones, Project 154, Robin Houghton, Shakespeare, Sue Rose

Two thoughts on poetry vs theatre

Peter Kenny

May 12, 2016

As a poet who writes plays, here are a couple of thoughts about poetry vs theatre while rehearsing my play A Glass of Nothing for the Brighton Fringe. Control I love this image of Jackson Pollock, at work above, because it makes me think about control. When people publish my poems I am always chuffed. But if…

a writer’s life, Poetry, Theatre

A Glass of Nothing, control, suggestion