Client details
John Hegley
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Mr Hegley was born in Newington Green, North London, and was educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University. His first public performance monies came from busking his songs, initially outside a shoeshop in Hull, in the late Seventies. He performed on the streets of London in the early Eighties, fronting the Popticians, with whom he also recorded two sessions for John Peel, and has since been a frequent performer of his words, sung and spoken, on both local and national radio. He has produced ten books of verse and prose pieces, two CDs and one mug, but his largest source of income is from stages on his native island. An Edinburgh Festival regular, he is noted for his exploration of such diverse topics as dog hair, potatoes, handkerchieves and the misery of human existence. He is an occasional DJ, dancer and workshop leader, using drawing, poetry and gesture. He has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts from what is now the University of Bedfordshire, and once performed in a women's prison in Columbia. | http://www.johnhegley.co.uk |
The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet 
My Dog is A Carrot 
Dog 
Uncut Confetti: A Loose Collection of Celebratory Pieces 
Beyond the Kennel
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| THE ADVENTURES OF MONSIEUR ROBINET 2009 Donut Press | Dear Reader, please find enclosed seventeen adventures and one short drama, each presented in French and English. In them you will meet Monsieur Robinet (our Gallic small town hero) together with a cast of friends, neighbours, relatives and his laconic dog, Chirac. Do not be concerned. Monsieur Robinet is a good man and can always be depended upon, even when life takes a turn for the strange. |
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| MY DOG IS A CARROT 2007 Walker Books | John Hegley`s doggie may not wear glasses, but then she is a carrot. Enter this poet`s weird, witty and bespectacled world and meet Grandma with her filthy glasses, the organic leek who has learned how to speak, the octopus who gets a nasty shocktopus, the man who drew his cornflakes, and a whole cast of other interesting characters. Surprising, serious and sometimes just plain surprising, this is a collection of poems even your dog will love. Unless, of course, your dog is a carrot too. |
| UNCUT CONFETTI 2006 Methuen Publishing Ltd | Published to coincide with the release of a John Hegley CD, and yet another sell-out tour of the British Isles, "Uncut Confetti" is a stunning volume of new work - from the funny to the sad, the personal to the philosophical - by one of our best-loved and best-selling writers. The book has a very strong autobiographical strand, and in particular some poignant reflections on John's father who would have been 100 this year. |
| DOG 2003 Methuen Publishing Ltd | This collection of verse and drawings from the man dubbed "comedy's poet laureate" combines Hegley's skills as a stand-up poet, puppeteer and cartoonist. The work is, by turns, both touching and funny. |
| THE SOUND OF PAINT DRYING 2003 Methuen Publishing Ltd | A collection of poems, sketches, songs, stories and diary entries which date back to boyhood in a Luton bungalow. |
| GLAD TO WEAR GLASSES 2002 Andre Deutsch Ltd | Glad to Wear Glasses is Hegley's first full-length collection. It includes several of his pieces regularly featured in the Guardian. It includes over seventy of Hegley's surprising, comic, serious, disconcerting, economical and always original poems. |
| BEYOND OUR KENNEL 1999 Methuen Publishing Ltd | John Hegley's collections of poetry share a common interest in the absurdity and tragedy of everyday family relationships, and where possible humour is used to bring these out. |
