Telltale Press – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines, by Robin Houghton

Peter Kenny

December 13, 2018

My ever-resourceful pal Robin Houghton has put together a real winner. It is an extremely practical and insightful little book which does what it says on the tin…. A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines. Packed with practical advice for those new to being published or a bracing reminder of what good practice…

Book Launch, Telltale Press

A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines, Robin Houghton

Get your TRUTHS here

Peter Kenny

July 25, 2018

I wanted to post this link to the Telltale Press site to get your copy of TRUTHS: A Telltale Press Anthology. Crammed with exceptional poets, this anthology is Telltale’s swansong, edited by Sarah Barnsley, Robin Houghton and I. Lovely to be able to finish the Telltale project on a high.

Poetry, Telltale Press

Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, TRUTHS: A Telltale Press Anthology

Slow progress and wide heart lead

Peter Kenny

May 11, 2018

Seven items from the imaginary news desk at Kenny Towers. A nice, not to mention speedy, review of TRUTHS A Telltale Press Anthology in London Grip. If you’d like to buy a copy, simply get in touch with me through this site. In other poetry news, I have a poem called Commuted on the Amaryllis site, and…

a writer’s life, Greece, Marketing, Peter Kenny The Writer Ltd., Publishing, Stained glass, Telltale Press, Writing

Ben Conti, Eleni Vakalo, Empreintes, Janet Sutherland, Louise Tondeur

Telltale Press finishes on a high

Peter Kenny

April 29, 2018

Robin Houghton and Sarah Barnsley and I co-edited TRUTHS: A Telltale Press Anthology, and we had our big launch. All kinds of marvellous poets who were in the anthology came and read. Sarah, Robin and I introduced the night and also read. Our guests were amazing. It was emotional, as we are wrapping up Telltale…

Poetry, Readings, Telltale Press

Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Telltale Press, TRUTHS: A Telltale Press Anthology

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

Precious time

Peter Kenny

May 7, 2017

I’ve spent the last couple of months with little time. I’ve been commuting to London to work in an advertising agency every day (a four hour round trip). The Gods of Freelance then added in more work for me to do on the train, and in the evenings and weekends and through holidays. By chance this coincided with one of…

A Glass of Nothing, a writer’s life, Brighton Blonde Productions, Poetry, Telltale Press, Theatre

A Glass of Nothing, Beth Symons, Katrina Naomi, Kitty Underhill, Richard Fleming, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber

Make 28th April a date for poetry in Lewes

Peter Kenny

April 2, 2017

There will be one of Telltale’s splendid reading in Lewes at the end of the month. Super talented Telltale pals Sarah Barnsley and Siegfried Baber, plus Sussex-based Marion Tracy, whose book Dreaming of Our Better Selves, I find distinctive and unusual. I’m looking forward to hearing more of Katrina Naomi’s work too. We have a great time at…

Poetry, Readings, Telltale Press

Katrina Naomi, Marion Tracey, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber

Jessica Mookherjee’s ‘The Swell’ – hear her with Judy Brown, Siegfried Baber and Michaela Ridgway 19th Oct in Lewes

Peter Kenny

October 16, 2016

Gillian Clarke’s remarks on the pamphlet flap for Jessica Mookherjee’s Telltale Press pamphlet The Swell are spot on. Among them she says Jess’s poems are ‘Bold, fiery, truthful, they tell an original story with power’. Other than reading The Swell at a fairly late stage before publication, I had little to do with Jess’s pamphlet. Sarah Barnsley, who along with Robin…

Performance, Publishing, Reading, Telltale Press

Jess Mookherjee, Judy Brown, Michaela Ridgway, Siegfried Baber, Telltale Press, The Swell

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

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