Hello! Thanks for dropping by. Here is a little biographical info should you find yourself curious.

I grew up in the Channel Island of Guernsey and the London borough of Brent. I studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. Interludes of unemployment, warehouse and manual work, telemarketing, a disastrous spell in the Civil Service, then researching for an industrial diseases charity followed. Finally, I settled on making a living as copywriter and creative director in advertising agencies – and have worked as a freelancer for almost twenty years. Recently, I moved to Seaford, East Sussex having lived in Brighton. I am happily married to a former head teacher, which means I am forbidden from running in the corridors.

Here are some projects I have worked on when not earning a crust.

PLANET POETRY PODCAST

With Robin Houghton, I present and produce the Planet Poetry podcast. Robin and I do in-depth interviews with leading poets and poetry influencers. Tim Relf, writing in Poetry News, The Newspaper of the Poetry Society, in Spring ’23 said: ‘Part of its success, is the fantastic chemistry between friends Peter and Robin, whose exchanges are illuminating, frank and often amusing’.

POETRY

Snow

Forthcoming from Hedgehog Press 2024 is Snow a collaboration with the intuitive artist Palo Almond a former health professional and public health academic, now turned intuitive artist. As soon as I saw her work I was immediately arrested by a sequence of images of a tiny resilient figure walking through a snowy landscape. A sequence Palo began during covid. I bought one, and later wrote four little tanka poems in response. When I saw a competition call from Hedgehog Press asking for eight pages of poems and images I asked Palo if she minded having a go, and I’m glad to say our little pamphlet is on its way. It is beautifully designed by Mark Davidson from Hedgehog Press, from the reproductions of Palo’s beautiful artwork right down to the patterned endpapers.

First published in my early twenties, in the 1980s, here are some of my publications… 

• Twenty four poem sequence ‘Sin Cycle’ published in E.Ratio 2020.
• The Nightwork (Telltale Press 2014)
• The Boy Who Fell Upwards, half of A Guernsey Double with Richard Fleming, (2010, Anthology of Guernsey/Guernsey Arts Commission).
• Recently publications can be found in 14 Magazine, Alchemy Spoon, And Other Poems, Amaryllis, Black Nore, E.Ratio, Driech Magazine, Finished Creatures, The Basil O’Flaherty, The Frogmore Papers, The Wee Sparrow Press, Other Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Island Review, London Grip, Poetry London, The Poetry Village, Under the Radar and so on. Plus here as a prizewinner in a Happenstance competition.

FICTION

I have written for adults and children. Example dark fiction publications include:

• The Grieving (2021) Supernatural Tales 46. The Inheritor (2019) in Supernatural Tales 41.
• Doctor Spotlight (2021) Flytrap (2019) What You Look For (2019), The Dark Fish (2018) in Horla the home of intelligent horror.
• The Dream Home (2019) in The Frogmore Papers 94.
• A Little Quiet Time (2005 USA) Quantum Muse, Coelacanth (2004 USA) Far Sector.

THEATRE

I formed Brighton Blonde Productions in 2015 with actor/director Beth Symons. We put on many shows in Brighton and at the Edinburgh Festival.

• We Three Kings (2016) first performed by Brighton Blonde Productions, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton December 2016, Featuring Beth Symons, Dylan Corbett Bader, Kitty Underhill and James Kuszewski.
• A Glass of Nothing (2016) first performed by Brighton Blonde Productions, at the Theatre Box, Brighton May 2016; second run, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, December 2016, Featuring Beth Symons, Dylan Corbett Bader, Kitty Underhill; third run, The Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, August 2017 replaced Dylan with Matt Colborne.
• Betty The Spacegirl (2011) first staged in The Marlborough Theatre. Featured Beth Symons, Mark Gandey and Callum McIntyre.
• A Bite To Eat (2011) a short sketch about Zombies first staged in The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton. Featured Beth Symons, Mark Gandey and Callum McIntyre
• Wrong (1999) was first directed and performed by Mindy Chillery and Pete Singer, and has seen performances in Glasgow, and at Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre in March and August 2011.
• The Man Who Could See Through Walls, (1993) was performed at London’s Water Rats Theatre by Peter Kenny and Mindy Chillery.

EDITING, PUBLISHING & JOURNALISM

In 2014 I co-founded Telltale Press, a poets collective, with Robin Houghton in 2014. Robin, Sarah Barnsley and I edited the collection Truths: A Telltale Press Anthology (2018).

My editing experience includes being temporary editor of Dragon’s Teeth, a children’s literature magazine, Cobweb, a small poetry magazine. And in 2001 I founded and edited AnotherSun, a pioneering e-zine, featuring poetry, prose and essays — which was extant for two years.

I have written reviews and interviews for publications as diverse as The Architects’ Journal, The Good Book Guide, Pharmaceutical Marketing, and On Track magazine – as well as numerous healthcare newsletters and publications.

MUSIC

• The Centaur (in development) Peter has written a libretto for an opera by  Helen Russell, based on the short story The Centaur by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
• A Return To Sarnia (2014) by Chiara Beebe, was based on my poem A Return, and first performed by The Guernsey Sinfonietta, as part of the Terra Nova concert of new and modern music in St. Peter Port Guernsey.
• Clameur – The Collaborations of Matthew Pollard & Peter Kenny vol. 1 (2012) The Pollard & Kenny album ‘Clameur’ records This concert will fall in love with you, Clameur and Minotaur. The recording also features Glen Capra (piano), Cem Muhurrem (violin), Tom Norrell (marimba) and Adam Bushell (vibraphone, marimba).
• This concert will fall in love with you (2010) composed by Matthew Pollard and Peter Kenny, premiered by the Tacet Ensemble in the Brighton Festival fringe 2010.  Performed by Matthew Pollard, Peter Kenny, Glen Capra, Tom Norrell, Adam Bushell and Ellie Blackshaw.