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Author, Poet, Travel Writer, Fell Walker, Long Distance Walker & Runner. With a beautiful wife, daughters, granddaughter & grandson. 

Peter Kay was born in Heywood, 1950, and now lives in West Yorkshire.  He is the author of “A Pennine Way Odyssey” (self-published 2012),   “Show Me The Way to Santiago” (Curious Cat Books 2020)  and “A Very Alternative Coast to Coast” (Curious Cat Books 2022).  He has written a soon to be published Children’s Book, “The Owl And The Mole”, illustrated by one of his daughters. He has written and performed poetry, thirteen poems have been published, in anthologies or on-line; six poems can be found in: “TUESDAY AFTERNOONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THIRTY POEMS BY FIVE POETS”. He is currently writing a murder mystery, set in 1930’s Yorkshire and ghost writing the Autobiography of a Congolese refugee RAP star.

Peter Kay
The Owl & The Mole – Update

The Owl & The Mole – Update

So the book it with the publishers – Just waiting for a date to be released soon! I’ll be back at the Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield on Saturday 2nd December! You can find me there with a collection of my books, alongside other authors.
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Peter KayNov 17, 20231 min read
Cauldron: Double Trouble – A Poem for Halloween by Peter Kay

Cauldron: Double Trouble – A Poem for Halloween by Peter Kay

Double trouble, soil and rubble, in the pan no squeak or bubble. But in the dark her eyes glow green, though through the day she stays unseen, conjures creatures, bats and worms, snake in the toilet, how he squirms. Never sleep, lest your nightmares wake, take care in the kitchen when you bake. Hear the […]
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Peter KayOct 27, 20231 min read
Black Sun by Peter Kay

Black Sun by Peter Kay

Black Sun There is a black sun rising in the east, a swirling, shape-shifting schizemic shift. Twitchers throng, to embrace overhead feast, each single element of airborne lift combines to darken crimson blooded sky. Freewheeling murmuration holds our gaze, black sun fills binoculars held to try to capture magic moments, as the day slips into darkness the throng disperses, thousands of sturnidae, forever lost. Hooded crow signals eternal curses as moon takes centre stage to count the cost.
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Peter KayOct 27, 20231 min read
Gingerlicious Halloween

Gingerlicious Halloween

Fabulous Gingerlicious Halloween open mic this Tuesday. With the fabulous host, David Driver: “Great night last night. Here are a few photos. Thanks Laura Strickland, Roz Ottery, Peter Kay Faye Roseanna, Ros Driver, Corinne Pollard, Robert Sandie, Louise Hofman.” Two Halloween themed Poems: Cauldron(Double Trouble) and Black Sun written and read by me. See “My […]
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Peter KayOct 27, 20231 min read
Winter Tales: Saturday 2nd December at 2pm

Winter Tales: Saturday 2nd December at 2pm

Winter Tales: Saturday 2nd December at 2pm at @BingleyTheatre Bingley Writers will be reading their winter inspired creative writing including poetry, ghost stories, and Xmas cheer. Free entry. Links to book will be available soon. Please share and spread the word.
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Peter KayOct 20, 20231 min read
Review By Nicky J Rae

Review By Nicky J Rae

“Happiness is meant to be shared” to quote a guy on a documentary about taking on the pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago… …does happiness have to be shared? Is it not enough to have that warm feeling inside of you, a glint in your eye, and a smile accompanied by a nod to One’s […]
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Peter KayOct 20, 20231 min read
National Bookshop Day in the UK!

National Bookshop Day in the UK!

Tomorrow is National Bookshop Day in the UK! So I am going to use this opportunity to promote both Book Dragon shop and two of my books available at The Book Dragon shop and from their website that ships internationally https://t.co/LF3gQLhex9 #NationalBookshopDay Purchase from the Book Dragon Paperback RRP £10.50 https://thebookdragon.co.uk/product/a-very-alternative-coast-to-coast-by-author-peter-kay/… #NationalBookshopDay Purchase from the Book […]
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Peter KayOct 13, 20231 min read