John Kenney Books in Order

Advertising executive Finbar Dolan is struggling through a rushed Christmas assignment when his estranged father falls ill. The news forces him to reconsider his career, broken engagement and feelings for a colleague, while confronting the family history he has avoided.

John Kenney’s comic poems examine marriage after romance settles into daily routine. Domestic frustrations, parenting, fading passion and familiar disagreements become material for wry observations about the intimacy and absurdity of sharing a life with another person.

John Kenney turns the experience of raising children into a collection of humorous poems. Written for parents, these short pieces bring his conversational wit to family life and the everyday demands, contradictions and affection that accompany caring for children.

Television anchor Ted Grayson loses his career after an angry tirade is caught on camera. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he faces an interview that could deepen his disgrace or make him confront the damage he has done.

John Kenney finds comic poetry in the small worries that occupy anxious minds. Awkward encounters, sleepless nights, nervous habits and endlessly revised emails become occasions to recognize the absurdity and familiarity of everyday unease.

John Kenney’s poems find humor in the routines and irritations of office life. Printer queues, endless spreadsheets, tepid coffee and workplace politics reveal the small absurdities of earning a living alongside colleagues who are both exasperating and strangely dear.

Divorced obituary writer Bud Stanley drunkenly publishes his own death notice and puts his job in jeopardy. While waiting to learn his fate, he begins attending strangers’ wakes and funerals, hoping that other people’s endings can teach him how to live.