Now UP: Our Season Six Finale featuring Will Harris plus poems from @fiddes.bsky.social, Tess Jolly and more planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis... with your hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social

Noticing | Noticing - with Will Harris - Planet Poetry

Cor what a scorcher! Time to bask in the company of Will Harris. You will delight in his fresh and distinct style, with cuttlefish-fast leaps of metaphor and imagery as we explore his two Granta volum...

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Peter Kenny I've taken the substack plunge... Please have a squint if you're there, for a unique mix of humour and profundity. only1peterkenny.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

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I write poems, short stories, plays and co-host the Planet Poetry podcast. This is a glimpse behind the wizard's curtain. I aim to write here twice a month. Click to read Peter Kenny on Substack. Laun...

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

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. planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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. 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...

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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!

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...

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 www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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...

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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...

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...

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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'.

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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...

In our latest @planetpoetry.bsky.social episode Robin meets Isabelle Baafi with talking about her hotly anticipated collection Chaotic Good from @faberbooks.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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 ...

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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 🐇

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...

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...

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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...

New episode! Ellen Cranitch discusses her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection 'Crystal' and we shoot for the stars with John Donne, Odysseus Elytis and Tomas Transtromer... with your hosts @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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...

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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. suptales.blogspot.com/2025/02/issu...

Issue 58 - Story Openings

A blog about ghost stories, weird fiction, quiet horror, and related matters.

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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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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