the nightwork
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Ernstophilia
Several years ago I had a feverish flu and was staying in a room where the only thing within reach of the bed was a book of Max Ernst’s fabulous paintings. I love Ernst anyway, and when I recovered I wrote this poem about someone who is deliriously obsessed by the painter’s work. It was originally published in…
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‘The Nightwork’ reviewed in The Frogmore Papers
Delighted to find The Nightwork reviewed in The Frogmore Papers by the excellent Charlotte Gann — whose poem In the classroom of touch in the last issue of Rialto absolutely blew me away. I particularly appreciated Charlotte noticing: “…how it (The Nightwork) invites the reader into its own world of atmospheres. I have real sympathy for the almost…
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London Grip reviews The Nightwork
A perceptive review of The Nightwork can be found here. The reviewer John Forth poses a question I find particularly interesting, by opening his review with this thought: I used to wonder whether some poets have a hot-line to the unconscious or are merely adept at making it seem that way. Now I save time and ask what’s…
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A review of ‘The Nightwork’
A welcome review of The Nightwork is to be found here in Antiphon magazine by Ian Badcoe.
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Telltale launches ‘The Nightwork’ in Lewes
Just a swifty… Last night was The Telltale Press launch for Robin Houghton’s The Great Vowel Shift and my The Nightwork. I felt lucky to be reading from my new pamphlet in the company of the excellent Catherine Smith and Robin Houghton with a attentive and supportive audience in Lewes, which is a town full of writers. I…
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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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The Nightwork cover illustration
Just received the cover illustration by Hannah Clare for my forthcoming Telltale Press pamphlet The Nightwork. And I am really pleased with it. It is deceptively simple, but the more I look at the more I notice in it. I wish I’d actually finished neurotically finalising the selection of the poems inside it. Luckily my old friend, the excellent Canadian…
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moo.com
Not often given to advocating products, but moo.com are pretty excellent. Just got some mini business cards made by them. The are very economical, of good quality, and you can upload any image you want to form the back of the card. I used a slight crop of my little drawing the nightwork, as one…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 