Collected Poems, Volume One - Hardcover

Normal, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 183811856X ISBN 13: 9781838118563

Verlag: Flapjack Press, 2021

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Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards.

Staring Directly at the Eclipse encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty, and other classic conversation stoppers.
Travelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected by the author from his early works.
Raining Upwards explores relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about.

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Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television. Henry co-wrote and script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs Merton Show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. With Steve Coogan, he co-wrote the BAFTA-winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, Tony Ferrino, Doctor Terrible, all of Steve's live tours, and the film The Parole Officer. Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1999, Henry Executive Produced all and script edited many of the shows during his tenure as MD. Highlights of the Baby Cow output during this time include Oscar-nominated Philomena, I Believe in Miracles, Gavin and Stacey, Moone Boy, The Mighty Boosh, Marion and Geoff, Red Dwarf, Uncle, Nighty Night, Hunderby, Camping and Alan Partridge. Since retiring in April 2016, Henry has written and performed eight BBC Radio 4 shows, A Normal Family, A Normal Life, A Normal Love, A Normal Imagination, A Normal Nature, A Normal Universe, A Normal Communication and A Normal Ageing, combining poetry, comedy and stories about his life and family. Born in St Ann's, Nottingham, Henry now lives in Brighton with the screenwriter Angela Pell and their son, Johnny. He was recently given honorary degrees by both Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham University and is Patron of Nottingham City Arts and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature. He has also had a beer and a bus named after him in his home city.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Flapjack Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 183811856X
• ISBN 13: 9781838118563
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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