An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal... Written between October 2018 and July 2019, these poems are concerned with the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract notions that get in the way of lunch.
Exploring themes of joy, positivity, and optimism, this poetry collection captures the essence of human experience during a challenging period from June 2020 to March 2021. Henry Normal's work offers a refreshing perspective, aiming to celebrate life and connection amidst uncertainty, emphasizing the importance of love and remembrance.
The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020. These poems 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 Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal. - Radio TimesThe Alan Bennett of poetry - The Scotsman
Raining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. In amongst his work lie some of the most tender, compassionate and moving pieces I have read from a modern poet - Artful Reporter
This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. The Alan Bennett of poetry - The Scotsman
Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. Published by Five Leaves in 2016, revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018.
The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. Distinctly funny - Time Out
The Reason I Jump from the parents' perspective
The Fire Hills was written between December 2021 and November 2022. Reflecting the first year of the author's move to Fairlight in East Sussex, this collection explores new landscapes, armed only with a pen and unwarranted optimism.