The Failing Writers Podcast
S4 Ep21: Henry Normal & Performing Poetry
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If Tom & Jon wrote poems
‘spose it will be assumed
They won’t be as good as Henry’s
Normal service will be resumed.
In this episode, we meet up with Henry Normal: poet, writer of famous sit-coms, TV producer and poetry festival founder, and have a blummin’ lovely natter.
(After we did that - we watched him perform all his lovely poems, so effortlessly. So fluidly. So naturally.
And thus, inspired by his performance, we wondered how hard it would be to knock off a quick poem and perform it aloud.
“Bloobee blah blah bleeblee
Bloobloo bloobloo la!…”
Sort of like that.
Dead easy.
So we did.
The results were... profoundly... um...
...well... decide for yourself.)
Henry Normal’s insta:
https://www.instagram.com/henrynormalpoet/
https://flapjackpress.co.uk/products/henry-normal
https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/henry-normal
The bloke who wrote the short story that Jon loved:
A.B. Finlayson and his excellent book:
https://abfinlayson.com/rockzombie/
Genevieve Marenghi-Daly’s lovely website.
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