Creative maverick. Writer of plays, poetry and dark fiction. Also banters on the Planet Poetry podcast (see bio link). Now also at peter-kenny.bsky.social
Joined April 2008
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19 Dec 2025
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! buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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17 Feb 2025
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!
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23 Jan 2025
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
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28 Nov 2024
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 buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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8 Nov 2024
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...
7 Nov 2024
New episode! Isabel Galleymore @IGalleymore is on the pod, talking to us about her book 'Baby Schema', Disney, cute vs creepy and tamagochis...
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7 Nov 2024
New episode! Isabel Galleymore @IGalleymore is on the pod, talking to us about her book 'Baby Schema', Disney, cute vs creepy and tamagochis...
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28 Oct 2024
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
17 Oct 2024
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. buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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17 Oct 2024
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. buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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4 Oct 2024
I discuss memory, meditation and halibut poems from @MariscatPress and halibut with the splendid
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14 Sep 2024
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. mariscatpress.com/news-event…
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25 Jul 2024
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 buzzsprout.com/1414696/15473…
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4 Jul 2024
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.
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25 Jun 2024
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 :festivalofchichester.co.uk/e…
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14 Jun 2024
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. buzzsprout.com/1414696/15249…
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23 May 2024
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. buzzsprout.com/1414696/15115…
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2 May 2024
Miss us? Then hear Ali Lewis read from his naggingly profound debut collection Absence from @CHEERIOPublish plus @kenpet & @RobinHoughton read Robert Frost, a harrowing work by Paul Celan, and discover 'Poetry Peter'. buzzsprout.com/1414696/14996…
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26 Apr 2024
Forgive this trill on the piccolo of self-promotion... 'Snow' a little black book by the artist Palo Almond and me on poems is now on pre-order from Hedgehog Press. There's a webpage and everything... hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/…
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11 Apr 2024
Hear the brilliant @rmcfarlane63 read from Living by Troubled Waters from @NineArchesPress. Plus @kenpet and @RobinHoughton discuss Ursula K. Le Guin, and Imogen Wade's National Poetry prizewinner 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City'. buzzsprout.com/1414696/14871…
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