Peter Kenny
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The Nightwork
Satisfaction, vulnerability and a strange sense of shedding an old skin. It’s not every day you see your name on a new cover. I collected a box of author’s copies of The Nightwork this weekend. Thumbing through the pages looking at the poems it contained, each one arising from (though not necessarily about) a particular episode of my life. It’s…
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An exile’s lament
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…
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A poem finds its way
A poem is a little packet of words that makes its own way in the world and has its own story. Several years ago I was contacted by someone editing an anthology of poetry about Auschwitz, to be published in Poland, asking to include my poem Heidegger in the Forest. The poem had been published…
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Secret identity
I was among the last in my class to learn to read, and my spelling was atrocious. I liked pictures, so comics were a natural home as I made my transition to becoming a reader at around seven. My friend Ajit, who lived next door to me in Neasden, was an avid reader of Marvel…
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Three Portraits for Poet and Piano
So I began rehearsals yesterday of the last two parts of Three Portraits for Poet and Piano. The first piece is Minotaur which is on the Clameur album. The second two have been finished this week and are new-born. I sat with Glen Capra yesterday going through them. Excellent music. The second piece is called…
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Clameur Launch 11 February 2012
The Clameur album launch will be on 11th February 2012 at the Unitarian Church in New Road Brighton. For those that know Brighton this couldn’t be more central, and is the big church with classical columns a few doors up from Brighton’s Theatre Royal and opposite the Dome Box Office and Mash Tun pub. The…
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Minotaur
Here is a video I shot for the short track Minotaur on my forthcoming CD with Matthew Pollard called Clameur. Whipped quickly around Brighton with my flip camera. Rather pleased with the result…
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Guernsey Literary Festival
Here is a link to the festival website, showing an excellent range of events. A great effort from Catriona Stares and her team, to get this up and running for the first time on the island. To see me here’s my timetable: Thursday 12 May 3:00-3:30 at the Festival Hub, reading from a Guernsey Double…
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Pighog poetry competition
I’m not usually one for entering competitions of any sort, but I entered a Pighog competition as they are a local Sussex-based publisher with a good reputation. I have been to one or two of their events in the past, and thought it was a good way of raising my profile in the off chance…
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Wrong at the Marlborough Theatre Brighton
After a two day trialling my play at the Marlborough theatre I am delighted with how things went. It has resulted in lots of positive outcomes. From my perspective there was confirmation that the play works and is funny. There was lots of laughter on both nights. This made me feel vindicated and happy. Then…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 