Kenny Knight

Lessons In Teamaking, the opening poem from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead has just been published by Candlestick Press in an anthology called Ten Poems About Tea. Gathered around the teapot in order of appearance are Thomas Hardy, Kenny Knight, Eavan Boland, Jo Shapcott, John Arlott, Carol Ann Duffy, John Betjeman, Sheila Hackney, John Agard and Tiffany Atkinson. Freshly boiled, served without sugar or one lump or two.

Efford Library Wednesday 1st December at 11:00am

The Brentathon: South Brent Old School Centre Saturday 4th December at 7:30pm

Stoke Library Thursday 16th December at 2:30pm

Peverell Library Thursday 16th December at 4:00pm

The library events are free entry but the Brentathon has an entry fee of about a pound. This event is to raise money for the upkeep of the community centre which the village bought about twelve years ago.

Kenny will be reading at Plymouth Art College in their Words From The Third Floor event at 5pm on Thursday
the 28th of October.

Free Entry

Kenny will be reading on Thursday the 7th of October at Plympton Library to mark National Poetry Day.

The reading will start at 4pm and Kenny will be reading poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead,
alongside some more recent poems from a work in progress called Trout Fishing On Treasure Island.

Refreshments will be available and the reading will last approximately an hour with a break in between.

I read on the Internet tonight that my friend and Shearsman bandmate Steve Spence has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize First Collection 2010, for his book of pirate poems A Curious Shipwreck, which was published by Shearsman books earlier this year. Congratulations Steve, now go on and win it Jim lad.

If you click onto the poems page you can now read 'At Worlds End' and 'Dissolving Textures' from A Curious Shipwreck and an unpublished poem 'When The Swashbuckling Had To Stop'.

Kenny will be continuing the reading of The Honicknowle Book Of The Dead on Tuesday 24th August in the grounds of Devonport Park.
The original venue of Devonport Park cafe had to be changed due to the building company that were working on the Pavilion Park Cafe going out of business a week before work was due to be completed.

Chairs will be set up in the area between the Memorial Garden and the Tennis Courts- look out for the library banner!
If the weather is wet, the reading will be held in Devonport Library, Welcome Hall.

For more information telephone 01752 305925 or 306246.

2:30 - 3:30pm.