Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Ink sweat and tears

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
A stocktake

Peter Kenny

February 5, 2015

Thanks to hefting a sack of wet sand just before New Year, January was a trapped nerve. Weeks of sleepless and painful nights left me groggy. In one fanboy moment I tweeted (it seemed right) Pascale Petit about her fabulous poem Ortolan about her father eating a songbird. She told me that it was written after a sleepless night in Paris. I…

Music, Poetry, Telltale Press

Clameur, Helen Russell, Ink sweat and tears, Jose Saramago, Robin Houghton, Skelton Yawngrave, Telltale Press