Peter Kenny

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Peter Kenny contemplates a pharmaceutical offer in today's poem. @peter-kenny.bsky.social @planetpoetry.bsky.social

Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...

Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social's guest on the Christmas edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound.
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Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...

Just dropped... A festive episode of Planet Poetry. An extended interview with South Uist poet Niall Campbell plus work from Mat Riches and there's Kay Syrad, and Clement Clarke Moore, and George Seferis. Cheers! www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

But have you *tried* Kev. I bet if you put your mind to it...

Genuinely perplexed. It has been hosing it down all September, but according to this #southeastwater page the water level at Ardingley has dropped. Can anyone explain this to me? www.southeastwater.co.uk/about/locati...

Season 5 | Finale - with Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny - Planet Poetry Join your podcast pals at a table at the Beachy Head pub. Enjoying a view of  sloping fields down to the Belle Tout Lighthouse and the sea beyond and take a moment to reflect on another season of...

It's a wrap for Season 5 . Your pals @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social repair to Beachy Head to celebrate. Happy Summer Holidays everyone! A humongous THANK YOU to all our stellar guests and wonderful listeners over the last five years. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

The Way | The Blueprint - with Jo Colley and Charles G Lauder, Jr - Planet Poetry It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr  and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of the Rat,&nbs...

Jo Colley (Blueprint Poetry Press) & I are the latest guests on the Planet Poetry Podcast discussing my pamphlet Year of the Rat with hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social It's a great session. My thanks to Robin & Peter for having us on.
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In-Words - an evening with the Telltale Poets Sarah Barnsley, Peter Kenny and Robin Houghton. Tuesday 24 June, 7.30 - 9.15, door open at 7. West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8NN. Free - all welcome

I'm reading at In-Words in Greenwich next Tuesday with @peter-kenny.bsky.social and Sarah Barnsley, and we'll also be talking about Telltale Press - free entry, do come!

She kept her options open, eg husbands and the transubstantiation debate was never worth her worry born under the sign of Virgo always a critical thinker now bastard now princess head down at needlepoint ever ready for peace or war the cute emasculation of courtiers a-prance in their gorgeous hose oh those days of masques and tilts she played to the privateers or hero explorers and what they brought her potatoes smokes potential matches all the portraits were staged Gloriana Moon Goddess Diana the Huntress Virgin whose modest garb she never wore which was a private joke for her ladies- in-waiting one woman to another and as for those boys scratching out their complaints in verse she preferred to call her conjuror and ask his thoughts on tides and stars volcanoes and God she knew too much to ever marry

Another book to commend to you; @robinhoughton.bsky.social's debut, 'The Mayday Diaries'. Opening section nails the imposteri-ness, silliness and general WTF that is modern white collar work; rest of the book is stuffed with poems full of vivacity like so. Brava! www.pindroppress.com/books/The%20...

Points | Divergences - with Erica McAlpine - Planet Poetry What was that? A bat or swallow? Something flitted past, but we can't agree on what we've just seen ... Erica McAlpine reads from Small Pointed Things (just published by Carcanet) that makes that unce...

Here's Erica McAlpine discussing her new book 'Small Pointed Things' from @carcanet.bsky.social in our latest episode...with @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social

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Still Life | Still Shining - with Richard Scott - Planet Poetry Still life? Not as we know it. Trembling with tension and beauty, and roses that cup darkness and secret trauma... Hear Richard Scott share from his extraordinary new collection That Broke into Shinin...

Poems that tremble with tension and beauty, cupping darkness and secret trauma. Richard Scott shares from his new collection 'That Broke into Shining Crystals, from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Hosted by @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Absolutely wonderful work from Richard Scott -- and a lovely man to interview. I've genuinely have not read a book of poetry for months that struck me so hard with its power and originality as 'That Broke into Shining Crystals'.

Chaos | Coded - with Isabelle Baafi - Planet Poetry Chaos? We love it! Time to meet Isabelle Baafi and hear about her-hotly anticipated first full collection Chaotic Good just published by Faber. Among other things, it grapples with what it means ...

In our latest @planetpoetry.bsky.social episode Robin meets Isabelle Baafi with talking about her hotly anticipated collection Chaotic Good from
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Had great fun chatting to David Crosier on Seahaven FM on his new series Crozier's Creatives. A splendid host who asked great questions. And I got to choose a few of my favourite tunes and read a few poems player.autopod.xyz/868608

Supernatural Tales 58 now released into the wild. Happy to have penned a contribution to the canon of rabbit based horror 🐇

Old Men | Cavalrymen - with Peter Daniels - Planet Poetry Why should not old men be mad? Hear Peter Daniels, a pioneer of gay men's writing in the UK, brood on the emptiness of boxes, speculate on what those Cavalrymen are up to behind the locked doors, cope...

Great to interview @peterdaniels.bsky.social, hear poems from 'Old Men' on the @planetpoetry.bsky.social podcast. We also discuss Leland Bardwell, and Timothy Gallagher a writer of monologues -- plus we report hotfoot from the National Poetry Competition awards. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

A snap I took of @fionalarkin.bsky.social reading her prize-winning poem last night. A well deserved win I thought!

Seaford, my newish hometown, has its Litfest 25 organised by Seahaven Poets. Lots of poetry events over ten days. I'm looking forward to doing a reading at the Wellington Hotel as guest on their open night on 12th April. Here's a link to the runners and riders... seahavenpoets.co.uk/litfest-2025...

Crystal | Clarity - with Ellen Cranitch - Planet Poetry A gleam of love in hard times. Our guest Ellen Cranitch shares poems from her Bloodaxe collection  Crystal, a subtle, multifaceted work arising from the discovery that her partner was addicted to...

New episode! Ellen Cranitch discusses her
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collection 'Crystal' and we shoot for the stars with John Donne, Odysseus Elytis and Tomas Transtromer... with your hosts @robinhoughton.bsky.social
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Issue 58 - Story Openings A blog about ghost stories, weird fiction, quiet horror, and related matters.

This spring's Supernatural Tales has a story I'm rather pleased with in it about a sinister rabbit. (Rabbits poorly-represented in horror). Poetry cracks the shell of our perception, so we peer out at the world afresh. Good horror does that too, but darkly.

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Have a great time! And thanks again for coming on our podcast. The more I read, and think about, Girl the more I love it.

Girls | Snakes - Planet Poetry Psssssssssst!  We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl. She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the responsibilities...

Loved talking to @ruthpadel.bsky.social about her fabulous collection Girl, and hearing her exquisite poems. From the annunciation to a serpent goddess glimpsed from a London bus. Plus poignant work by Siegfried Baber listen to @planetpoetry.bsky.social here www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Cheers Lawrence!

Big thanks to @hannahl1n.bsky.social whose poet lists I’ve just followed. Looking forward to making many new friends on here.

Thank you very much Hannah! Will do.

Peter Kenny and Matthew Pollard focusing intently together during the recording of their album Clameur. Picture by Adrian Turner.

13 years since Clameur. One of the collaborations I am most proud of is still findable on Spotify. The main piece 'This Concert Will Fall In Love With You' is about a concert that falls in love with its audience. This retains a weird power and Matthew Pollard's music is spellbinding and exquisite.

Ooh that’s brilliant! Thank you Helen!

Hello Jane! All the best people are here I see XX

Oppression | Optimism - with Tishani Doshi - Planet Poetry What's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi, sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the continuing oppres...

Hello! Happy to be here and hoping for better vibes. Here's a link to the latest episode of the Planet Poetry podcast, where my partner in crime Robin Houghton interviews Tishani Doshi. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...