Stephen Bone – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

The Dream Home

Peter Kenny

September 25, 2019

Very happy to have a new dark tale in the Autumn 2019 94th edition of the literary magazine The Frogmore Papers, edited by Jeremy Page. There are two other stories in this edition: A Citadel by Natalya Lowndes, and A Few Brief Words by Andrew Blair. I found both had a lovely balance of humour…

a writer’s life, Blowing my own trumpet, Horror, Poetry, Prose

A Citadel, A Few Brief Words, Andrew Blair, Jeremy Page, Laura Chalar, Natalya Lowndes, Peter Kenny, Stephen Bone, The Dream Home, The Frogmore Papers, The Nineties Revisited

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

The magnetism of the mise-en-scène

Peter Kenny

December 19, 2016

In The Cinema by Stephen Bone, published by Playdead Press I bought a copy of In The Cinema at the end of last year, and find these poems have lingered in my mind longer than most. It was the careful mise-en-scène in several of the poems, which first began to intrigue me. Stephen Bone’s choices of objects lends the poems a…

Poetry, Reviews

In The Cinema, Playdead Press, Stephen Bone