Clare Best – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Powerful work from Clare Best and Matthew G. Rees

Peter Kenny

January 9, 2020

Here are a two things I have read lately, that I would highly recommend. Clare Best The Missing List I’ve met Clare several times, but bought this book without realising that its subject matter was in fact a memoir about child abuse, published in 2018. I discovered it to be a beautiful patchwork of impressions, of…

Autobiographical, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories

Clare Best, Matthew G. Rees, The Missing List, The Snow Leopard of Moscow

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

Two short reviews: Tamar Yoseloff and Clare Best

Peter Kenny

November 29, 2015

A look at two recent publications. A Formula for Night, New and Selected Poems by Tamar Yoseloff, and Cell by Clare Best with art by Michaela Ridgway. New and Selected Poems: A formula for Night by Tamar Yoseloff from Seren Books. A New and Selected is a point of significance in a poet’s career, and shows someone unafraid to challenge herself conceptually…

Poetry, Reading, Readings

A Formula for Night, Cell, Clare Best, Michaela Ridgway, Seren Books, Tamar Yoseloff, The Frogmore Press, Vici MacDonald