Jess Mookherjee – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

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

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