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Henry Normal in conversation with... Rose Condo

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Henry Normal in conversation with... Rose Condo

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Wed, 25 August 2021

12:00 – 13:00 BST

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Henry Normal in conversation with... Rose Condo

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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 NORMAL

Henry 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 Times

ROSE CONDO

Rose Condo is a Canadian poet now based in Salford, England. With a background in theatre, she has been writing, performing and teaching for over twenty years and was longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. Rose has won numerous poetry slams and her poetry theatre show, The Empathy Experiment, received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to win the award for Best Spoken Word Show at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2019. Her debut collection, After the Storm, was published in 2020, and contains the scripts of her three award-winning poetry theatre shows: The Geography of Me, How to Starve and Artist and The Empathy Experiment.

“A steadying reminder of compassion in a world tipped off its axis.” Rosie Garland, poet & author

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