Poetry Hour with Henry Normal - West Bridgford Library

As apart of Nottingham Poetry Festival 2024, Henry Normal and his hand pickedguests team up with Inspire Culture, Learning and Libraries to undertake a tourof four Nottinghamshire Libraries. Book your tickets for an hour of poetry andcomedy that will have you laughing and crying, most likely at the same time.

For more information onNottingham Poetry Festival check out nottinghampoetryfestival.com.

ABOUTHENRY

HenryNormal is a writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the ManchesterPoetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of NottinghamPoetry Festival. He co-wrote and script edited the multi-award winning MrsMerton show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm, and co-created andco-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. In June 2017 Henry was honoured witha special BAFTA for services to Television after retiring from Baby CowProductions in 2016, where highlights of his tenure as MD include theOscar-nominated film Philomena, I Believe in Miracles, Gavin and Stacey, MooneBoy, Uncle, Marion and Geoff, Nighty Night, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf,Hunderby, Camping and Alan Partridge. Henry has written and performed 11 BBCRadio 4 shows combining comedy, poetry and stories about family. He wasrecently given an honorary doctorate of letters by Nottingham Trent University,another by Nottingham University, he has a beer and a bus named after him inNottingham and has just completed a nationwide sell-out theatre tour with theBanksy of poetry, Brian Bilston.