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John Hegley: Edinburgh Festival
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John Hegley is one of Britain's most innovative, and best loved comic poets with seven best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. The bespectacled, dog-lover began his career at the notoriously tough Comedy Store, is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival, and has performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the USA
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John Hegley is well known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with six best selling volumes of poetry to his name. As a performer, he has worked in theatres and comedy clubs around the UK, selling out every year at the Edinburgh Festival, at which he was nominated for a Perrier Award in 1989. He has performed worldwide including at the Montreal and New Zealand Comedy festivals. He recently persuaded Neil Kinnock to dance on stage with a paper bag on his head and a potato under his chin whilst Hegley sang a French poem about pommes de terres.
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John Hegley, bespectacled dog-loving poetic type, is widely known as one of the country’s most innovative comic artists with eight well-selling volumes of verse to his name. He is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival and performs in venues ranging from comedy festivals in Colorado to Colombian women’s prisons. He is heard regularly on BBC R4, often with John Cooper Clarke.
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The new series opens with a reading by one of the country's leading poets, John Hegley. John, who has appeared in Melbourne, Montreal, Wellington, Colombia and Zanzibar, is a regular sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival. He
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