Written between August 2017 and January 2019, these poems are concerned with the search for meaning, identity and truth, and other foolhardy adventures.
"Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit" - The Guardian
Cover art by Johnny Carroll-Pell.
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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.
“The Alan Bennett of poetry” – The Scotsman
Cover art by Johnny Carroll-Pell.
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An all-new collection 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.
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The Distance Between Clouds is all-new collection written between June 2020 and March 2021.
“Finally, a collection of poetry about joy, positivity and optimism, before I die unloved and forgotten.” – Henry Normal.
Cover art by Johnny Carroll-Pell.
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Published 16th March 2020
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 Times
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Johnny Carroll-Pell is a young artist who is diagnosed as severely autistic.
Though he finds verbal communication challenging, Johnny finds expression through painting. This book contains 100 pictures of his work.
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Johnny is nineteen. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - in his case that means he will probably never get a job, never have a girlfriend, never leave home.
And over the last nineteen years this is what his father, TV producer and comedy writer Henry Normal and his wife Angela have been trying to come to terms with.
This is a book for anyone whose life has been touched by autism - it's about the hope, the despair, and the messy, honest sometimes comical day-to-day world of autism, as well as a wonderful, warm book about the unconditional, unconventional love between a father, a mother and a son.
The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works.
“Green are the English pastures
Green – the jealousy of lovers
Green are the fruit pastels
I always offer to others”
“Distinctly funny” – Time Out
Cover photo by Richard Davis.
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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.
“Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations” – The Stage
Cover art by Johnny Carroll-Pell
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Travelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected by the author from his early works.
Includes a Foreword by Lemn Sissay MBE.
Guardian Review 13 May 2017:
The Saturday Poem
“The nerd triumphant” –
Manchester Evening News
“A gentle giant of stand-up poetry” – List
“The enfant terrible of alternative poetry” – Leeds Other Paper
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Henry Normal’s first poetry book 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.
First published by Five Leaves in 2016, Staring Directly at the Eclipse has been revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018.
“Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines” – The Guardian
Audio book also available
Cover art by Johnny Carroll-Pell.
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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.
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