Tess Jolly
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It’s uncanny – Tess Jolly and Krishan Coupland on Planet Poetry
Robin and I have just uploaded the latest episode of Planet Poetry. This one dabbles in the Uncanny, and is an overlap in the Venn diagram of my interests, with my interests in dark fiction and black comedy. Tess Jolly has cropped up severally in this blog. I have always been a fan of Tess’s…
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Zoom launches, Planet Poetry, and a spot of horror
England is in its second day of its second national lockdown. The outcome of the US Presidential Election is on a knife edge, but I know readers of this blog will have lain awake at night wondering what on earth has Peter Kenny been doing? Yesterday Robin Houghton and I — the Smashy and Nicey…
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Between beauty and terror
Thus the blue hour comes by Tess Jolly, Indigo Dreams Publishing I love Tess Jolly’s poems, and I posted my look at her first collection Touchpapers here. Her latest, Thus the blue hour comes from Indigo Pamphlets confirmed the promise of her first pamphlet with what is, in my view, a beautifully coherent and even stronger collection.…
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A poet between worlds
Touchpapers by Tess Jolly, published by Eyewear Aviator 2016 Series There is a magic and darkly fairytale quality in Tess Jolly’s work which I greatly admire. The poetry is the product of a powerful imagination. In several poems a brother is depicted as a magical other, and their sibling relationship seems closest when dressing up, or playing imaginative games. my legs swinging,…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 