Peter Kenny

Creative maverick. Writer of plays, poetry and dark fiction. Also banters on the Planet Poetry podcast (see bio link). Now also at

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

Just dropped... A festive episode of the Planet Poetry Podcast. 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! https://t.co/o84M33cE2g

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

Thank you very much @rfchadburn for your continuing support for @PlanetPoem -- Robin and appreciate your commitment, which we share, to supporting poetry. More power to you!

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

Our first episode of 2025 is live - we talk to the brilliant Tishani Doshi, debate Chat GPT and Bad Kid Catullus - where else do you get this variety?? @BloodaxeBooks @shotscarecrow @Kenpet @RobinHoughton

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

Stride with Martin Malone through each season on the rugged Aberdeenshire coast in his 'Gardenstown' collection from @brokensleep and his selected Larksong Static from @hedgehogpoetry plus @kenpet and @RobinHoughton revisit Dylan Thomas, and Selima Hill https://t.co/LswmXrbv0L

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

Not only @IGalleymore spilling the beans to @RobinHoughton this week, but we also hear a poem by @poetrysociety Foyle Young Poet Indy Moon, and @kenpet gets all Keatsian...

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

New episode! Isabel Galleymore @IGalleymore is on the pod, talking to us about her book 'Baby Schema', Disney, cute vs creepy and tamagochis...
https://t.co/KBz1y7v9Bt

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

For those who missed it... My interview with @danez_smif Danez Smith is available from the Planet Poetry Podcast right now discussing their new collection Bluff @PenguinBooks

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

Hear the inspirational @danez_smif read from their instant classic: 'Bluff'. Plus @kenpet and @robinhoughton discover work by Sudan's Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (from @PoetryTranslate) and read Tony Hoagland and celebrate Fleur Adcock who passed this month. https://t.co/EQWQnQx1nO

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

D’oh! Confound these US spellings! #wordle

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

Hear the inspirational @danez_smif read from their instant classic: 'Bluff'. Plus @kenpet and @robinhoughton discover work by Sudan's Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (from @PoetryTranslate) and read Tony Hoagland and celebrate Fleur Adcock who passed this month. https://t.co/EQWQnQx1nO

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

I discuss memory, meditation and halibut poems from @MariscatPress and halibut with the splendid
@CharlotteGann
in an Understory Conversation #poet #poetry #memory https://t.co/Fnb93tmUeT

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

I discuss memory, meditation and halibut poems from @MariscatPress and halibut with the splendid
@CharlotteGann
in an Understory Conversation #poet #poetry #memory https://t.co/Fnb93tmUeT

[Mariscat Press @MariscatPress]

Our latest publication is a new venture: the first 3 in 1 pamphlet we've done. We've called it a Sampler and we're delighted with it! Order your copy to read poems by Helen Evans, Peter Kenny @Kenpet & Marilyn Ricci. https://t.co/Wa8EI14lES

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

@ArtCandee Weirdness.

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

In our season finale we revisit the wealth of gloriously talented guests we've interviewed recently, plus (breaking our iron rule) we feature poems by @robinhoughton and @kenpet from forthcoming publications from Pindrop Press and @MariscatPress https://t.co/N6ehH6mpN6

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Hear @commajane read from her collection 'Assembly Lines' from @BloodaxeBooks (plus the best Brexit poem ever) and on the UK election day @kenpet and @RobinHoughton talk politics & poems from Adrian Mitchell,@DanushaLameris & Jameson Fitzpatrick.
https://t.co/8d9r61IXdK

[The Frogmore Press @FrogmorePress]

Tonight (25 June) in Chichester: Frogmore founder and poet Jeremy Page is reading at @FestOfChi, with Maura Dooley and Mike Carey’s Big House Jazz Band. There’s also the launch of Poetry & All That Jazz magazine. Info here :https://t.co/0atOhwlPO0

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

@Conservatives You people are disgraceful.

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

From Korea to Lincolnshire @RoryWaterman delights us with Come Here to This Gate, from @Carcanet. And @kenpet and @robinhoughton belatedly discover the @mcrucefix translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies and celebrate poet Ann Perrin. https://t.co/FR0erskgHR

[Peter Kenny @Kenpet]

@VKennefick @PlanetPoem @SeniSeneviratne @peepaltreepress @RobinHoughton @Carcanet @InkSweatTears Thank you Victoria. I loved your work!

[Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem]

An avian turn? We feature @SeniSeneviratne and her poems from 'The Go-Away Bird' (@peepaltreepress) plus hosts @kenpet and @robinhoughton chat about 'Egg/Shell' by @VKennefick (@Carcanet) & online poetry from @InkSweatTears and Propel Magazine. https://t.co/BaVlbGukEK