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John Hegley
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Singer, poet and stand-up John Hegley is an Edinburgh Festival regular who has ... appeared in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Zanzibar and Luton - the small town of his upbringing. He has nine books to his name, two albums and one mug. He has performed on the radio in five series of his own devising. There have also been sporadic one-off's on television with Wogan, Clive Anderson and Blue Peter. The new show is a performance of verses and drawings from the title volume; the mood moves from raucous to reflective, the setting from Luton to Zanzibar.
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John Hegley is one of the country's most innovative comic poets and likes dogs a lot. He has several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name and is a regular sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival. A show of songs, poems and joining in's. Much of it new. For audiences new (but not newer than seven) and old. Observations on insect and potato life.
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To accompany the tour John Hegley has a new book out called, surprisingly, The Sound of Paint Drying. It's described as 'a collection of poems, sketches, songs, stories and diary entries which date back to boyhood in a Luton bungalow', and does exactly what it says on the cover.
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John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with seven best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. His stage act includes elements of poetry, music and comedy and he is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival. He wears glasses and despises contact lenses, both of which are made clear through his work. Other passions include potatoes, dogs and his home town of Luton. "Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils." The Observer
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John Hegley worked with Year 7 students from Hackney Free and Parochial School. The whole year group came to the National Gallery for the masterclass, some students visiting the Gallery for the very first time. They spent an hour with John looking at the stories behind Greek Mythological paintings.
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John Hegley was born in 1953 in Newington Green, and moved to Luton at an early age. After leaving school he worked as a bus conductor and social security clerk, until he went to Bradford University, eking out his grant by working as a nurse in a local mental hospital. His first notable media exposure was the John Peel sessions (Radio One) with The Popticians in 1983/4, with songs about spectacles and the misery of human existence. After publishing 'Glad to Wear Glasses' in 1990 another six titles followed filled with verse, prose, drawings drama and photographs of potatoes, and the CD 'Saint and Blurry'. In 2000, John received an honorary Arts Doctorate from Luton University and had his most notable live engagement in a women's prison, Medellin, Columbia.
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