Henry Normal in conversation with… Gerry Potter

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Join poet, writer, TV and film producer Henry Normal as he chats and shared poems with award-winning wordsmiths from Flapjack Press - and you can ask the questions too!A series of free live stream events brought to you this summer by Flapjack Press, Manchester Libraries and New Poetry Society. What better way to spend your lunchtime?HENRY NORMALHenry Normal is a poet, writer, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. Henry co-wrote and script edited The Mrs Merton Show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. Among his writing collaborations with Steve Coogan are the BAFTA-winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, all of Steve’s live tours and the film The Parole Officer. Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1999, Henry Executive Produced all and script edited many of the shows during his tenure as MD. Highlights of the Baby Cow output during this time include Oscar-nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey, Moone Boy, The Mighty Boosh, Marion and Geoff, Red Dwarf, Uncle, Nighty Night and Alan Partridge. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television. Since retiring, Henry has written and performed seven BBC Radio 4 shows in his ‘occasional series’ A Normal…, combining comedy, poetry and stories about his life and family. His most recent poetry collection, The Distance Between Clouds, was published in 2021 and volume one of his collected poems will be published in November this year. Henry will be touring the UK throughout the forthcoming winter and spring.“Shove up national treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal.” Radio TimesGERRY POTTERGerry Potter is a poet, playwright, actor, director, and both creator and destroyer of the infamous gingham diva Chloe Poems. A favourite son of Manchester and his hometown Liverpool, he trained at Everyman Youth Theatre and National Museums Liverpool lists him amongst the city’s leading LGBTQ+ icons. The portrait documentary My Name is Gerry Potter premiered at Homotopia in 2015 and his first volume of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse, Planet Young, was championed on BBC2’s Between the Covers. His most recent collection of poetry and plays, Manchester Isn’t the Greatest City in the World (The Rise and Rise of The Bourgeois Zeitgeist), was published in 2018 and a new title, 6A Blackstock Gardens, will be published in April 2022.“Will amuse, move, inspire and provoke.” Polari Literary Salon

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