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Collected Poems, Volume Three

Henry Normal author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Flapjack Press

Published:15th Aug '23

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Collected Poems, Volume Three cover

Includes all the poems from Henry's collections Strikingly Invisible, The Beauty Within Shadow and The Distance Between Clouds, and features many of the poems from his award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, 'A Normal...'.

Strikingly Invisible is concerned with the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract notions that get in the way of lunch.
The poems in The Beauty Within Shadow are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions.
The Distance Between Clouds: “Finally, a collection of poetry about joy, positivity and optimism, before I die unloved and forgotten.” – Henry Normal.

"The master of balancing laugh-out funny with acute poignancy." - The i / "Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times / "Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines." - The Guardian / "Henry Normal's observational poems are always a delight." - Write Out Loud / "He loves the little things in life because he knows that really they are the big things." - The i / "Warm, accessible, and never wantonly oblique, but deep beyond measure." - Northern Soul / "Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations." - The Stage / "The Alan Bennett of poetry." - The Scotsman / "The funniest man you've never heard of." - The Telegraph

ISBN: 9781739623111

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

306 pages