From a cheerful widow in Chicago to a Killing Fields tour guide in Cambodia, from a teacher in Cuba to a Minister of Information in India, people are invariably more interesting and multi-faceted than they at first appear - if you are prepared to give them time and listen to their stories.

Years of listening and travelling have been condensed into Nigel Planer's new poetry collection, which - as well as having an enormous cast list of people from all around the world - has poems which are personal, emotional, raw, and sometimes plain silly.


About the Author
Nigel Planer was an original member of the Comedy Store and Comic Strip venues at the centre of the "Alternative Comedy" movement of the 1980s, and was a star of The Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents... TV series. As well as enjoying a long career as a performer, he has written three novels, a memoir, several plays, TV and radio scripts, and over 100 episodes of The Magic Roundabout for Channel 4.

This is Nigel's third collection of poetry, following Making Other Plans (Flapjack Press, 2023) and Unlike the Buddha (Jackson's Arm, 1997). His poems have also been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Since the nineties, he has toured the country as a performance poet, appearing with (among others) Henry Normal, Martin Newell, Lemn Sissay and John Cooper Clarke, including performances at Literary Festivals, Radio 4's Stanza, and the Festival Hall in London.


Reviews
"He absorbs everything going on around him and creates even more." Harry Mount
"Moving, funny and brilliant." Christopher Eccleston



Book Information
ISBN 9781068214585
Author Nigel Planer
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Flapjack Press
Publisher Flapjack Press
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 134mm * 6mm