Robin Houghton

Poetry omnivore

Peter Kenny

February 21, 2018

For me, it’s all been about poetry so far this year. Sarah Barnsley, Robin Houghton and I have been putting together an anthology from Telltale, about which there will be more news shortly. Meanwhile I’ve been editing my own 24-poem, pamphlet-length collection, and have been lucky enough to receive excellent advice and a good deal…

Poetry, Reading, Readings

Antony Mair, Charlotte Gann, Jacqueline Saphra, James Sheard, Jane Hirshfield, Ocean Vuong, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Stephen Bone, Telltale Press, William Blake
A pre-Christmas ramble

Peter Kenny

December 8, 2017

My double life requires me to switch from working in advertising agencies, back to picking up the threads of my creative life and vice versa. My most recent agency stint was with a lovely crew at DDB Remedy in London, which culminated in six days in Austria. The work was a bit full on, however,…

a writer’s life, Peter Kenny The Writer Ltd., Poetry, Travel, Working

Charlotte Gann, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Stephen Bone, Vienna
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
Precious time

Peter Kenny

May 7, 2017

I’ve spent the last couple of months with little time. I’ve been commuting to London to work in an advertising agency every day (a four hour round trip). The Gods of Freelance then added in more work for me to do on the train, and in the evenings and weekends and through holidays. By chance this coincided with one of…

A Glass of Nothing, a writer’s life, Brighton Blonde Productions, Poetry, Telltale Press, Theatre

A Glass of Nothing, Beth Symons, Katrina Naomi, Kitty Underhill, Richard Fleming, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber
The Interpreter’s House, a home from home

Peter Kenny

July 24, 2016

Since meeting Martin Malone, editor of The Interpreter’s House, last year at a reading we were giving in Lewes, and hearing him read excellently (and pyrotechnically as his folder of poems accidentally caught alight) I have finally got my act together to become a subscriber. In fact I tend to share my limited subscriptions budget around among…

Poetry, Telltale Press, The Nightwork

Martin Malone, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber, The Interpreter’s House
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
More on project 154

Peter Kenny

May 22, 2016

I received my copy of the Live Canon Project 154 book a day or so ago. All of Shakespeare’s sonnets, with a response by 154 contemporary poets including friends like Robin Houghton, Antony Mair, Sue Rose and many more. As a rule this kind of intertextuality isn’t my bag. Nor do I need prompts for what…

Poetry, Reading

Abigail Parry, Antony Mair, leoemercer, Mo Jones, Project 154, Robin Houghton, Shakespeare, Sue Rose
Telltale Press reading, Lewes 13 April

Peter Kenny

March 13, 2016

The Telltale poets’ collective is positively gambolling into Spring, bringing with it some exceptional poetry to Lewes next month. I’m looking forward to this Telltale reading greatly, not least because I can hungrily engulf the poetry without having to perform myself. Plus the event is free and in the characterful Lewes Arms, one of my favourite pubs in the centre of Lewes.…

Poetry, Readings, Telltale Press

Abegail Morley, Rebecca White, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Telltale Press
Ready for Chad and missing writing poetry

Peter Kenny

October 1, 2015

Chad Final stage of prep seems now to be done. Passport renewed, visa obtained, jabs jabbed (although inconveniently I had a fever when I went for my yellow fever jab so I had to return a few days later) anti-malarial Malerone tablets bought, while my wife has armed me with lots of practical things like wet…

Charity, Guernsey, Marketing, Poetry, Travel

Carcanet, Chad, DRTV, Edward Chaney, Guernsey, Infragreen, Kate Bingham, Poetry Book Fair, Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber, Telltale Press, The Fire Station, Timothy Adès, Victor Hugo
TELLTALE PRESS at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair – Conway Hall, London Saturday 26th September

Peter Kenny

September 23, 2015

Yay! Telltale Press will be represented at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair this weekend. Come to our stand say howdy to Robin Houghton, Siegfried Baber, Sarah Barnsley and myself. We’ll be armed with revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of chat. Plus you have to grab hold of Sarah Barnsley’s spanking new ‘The Fire Station’ as is it is released…

Poetry, Publishing

Robin Houghton, Sarah Barnsley, Siegfried Baber, Telltale Press