Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Hooked

A bit of bardic business

Peter Kenny

April 19, 2015

Quite a bit of bardic business this week. On Wednesday I did a Telltale and Friends reading with Martin Mallone a top poet who also edits The Interpreter’s House and finished the evening by accidentally setting his poetry file on fire. He is currently writing about the first world war, and there was some laughter as he…

Poetry, Telltale Press

A Glasshouse, Guernsey Poets, Helen Fletcher, Helen Ivory, Hooked, Ink sweat and tears, Iron, Lewes Arms, Martin Mallone, Robin Houghton, Roy Marshall, Siegfried Baber, Someone-else’s patch, Telltale Press, The Interpreter’s House
An exile’s lament

Peter Kenny

November 6, 2013

I am an exile, but I am not alone. Most people I know live far away from where they grew up. Though born in London, my mother moved to Guernsey to live with my grandparents when I was little. I started school on the island, and my brother was born in the old granite cottage…

A Guernsey Double, Guernsey

A Guernsey Double, Guernsey, Hooked, Icart, Le Coin d’la Biche, Peter Kenny, Richard Fleming, St Martins