A Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023.“Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance.” Henry NormalBorn in St Ann’s, Nottingham, in 1956, Henry Normal now lives in East Sussex with screenwriter Angela Pell and their son, Johnny.Henry performs poetry at Literature Festivals and theatres around the UK and regularly posts on the internet. He has been awarded honorary degrees by both Notti...

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. Narrated by the author."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The ScotsmanHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the M...

The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works."Distinctly funny" - Time OutHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television.Henry co-wrote and script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs M...

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."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" - Ti...

Henry Normal uses poetry, storytelling and comedy to tackle big subjects with his trademark humour. This collection includes five of his funny and moving BBC Radio 4 shows:A Normal Family is centred around Henry's son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with autism. Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means for Johnny, for himself, and for his wife, Angela.A Normal Life continues to draw on Henry's experiences of bringing up a chil...

A premature collection of posthumous poems.“He loves the little things in life because he knows that really they are the big things.” The i"The funniest man you've never heard of." The TelegraphHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television....

The Beauty Within Shadow is narrated by Henry Normal.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."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman

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.Henry Normal co-wrote and script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs Merton Show and co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. With Steve Coogan, he co-wrote the BAFTA-winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Dia...

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."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" -...

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.First published by Five Leaves in 2016, Staring Directly at the Eclipse is revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan...

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 StageHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a spe...

Award-winning writer Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different aspects of his life'Creative, surprising - and unique' The TelegraphIf you Google 'Lemn Sissay', all the results will be about him - he's the only person in the world with that name. But that's not the only thing that makes him unique. In this fascinating series, he mixes stand-up, poetry and interviews to explore four more situations in his ...