Biography
Biography
(taken from the book 'Love Cuts')
John Hegley was born in Newington Green, Islington, at an early page in
the book of his life. By chapter two he had moved to Luton where he spent
the majority of his childhood and the totality of his time in the scouts.
We then find him briefly in Bristol, bus conducting, from where he moves
to Bradford University to study Literature and Sociology and then he's
back in London, busking and working in children's theatre, before embarking
upon his present voyage in the poetry area. He has had five books published
Glad to Wear Glasses (1990),
Can I Come Down Now Dad? (1991),
Five Sugars Please (1993),
These Were Your Father's (1994) and
Love Cuts (1995).
He performs at festivals, on radios and in televisions and theatres.
He has access to a dog.
He has also recorded a collection of songs and poems entitled Saint and Blurry.
Publications
| Title: | Glad to Wear Glasses | |
| Published by: | André Deutsch, 1990. ISBN 0 233 98659 6 (paperback) | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters | |
| An example: | "Poem about not using tropical hardwoods because it diminishes the rain forests" this winter I hope you get a splinter if you make a toboggan and it is a mahog'un |
| Title: | Can I Come Down Now Dad? | |
| Published by: | Methuen, 1991. ISBN 0 413 66300 0 | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters, Romans, God | |
| An example: | "My doggie don't wear glasses" my doggie don't wear glasses so they're lying when they say a dog looks like its owner aren't they |
| Title: | Five Sugars Please | |
| Published by: | Methuen 1993. ISBN 0 413 67880 6 | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters, Romans, God, Cafes | |
| An example: | "The difference between dogs and sheds" It's not a very good idea to give a dog a coat of creosote |
| Title: | These Were Your Father's | |
| Published by: | Methuen 1994. ISBN 0 413 68730 9 | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters, Romans, God, Cafes, Camping | |
| An example: | "My father's footwear" Once, a skinhead in my class came round my house in his Doctor Martens and passing the rubber galoshes which my dad wore to dig the garden He got me to try them on and he said 'gosh John, those galoshes look really smart, you should start wearing them into school.' And foolishly I did |
| Title: | Love Cuts | |
| Published by: | Methuen, 1995. ISBN 0 413 69910 2 | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters, Romans, God, Cafes, Camping, Spuds, Plasters | |
| An example: | "Fracas" Eric got aerobic when the going got too Francophobic: he didn't have a leg to stand on but he had someone to land on. |
Recordings
| Title: | Saint and Blurry | |
| Released on: | Rykodisc/Hannibal, 1993. HNCD 1376 | |
| Themes: | Glasses, Dogs, Scouts, Trainspotters, Spuds, Sumo | |
| An example: | "Malcolm" Miserable Malcolm from Morcombe Had rottweilers but would not walk 'em They stayed in all day But no muck would they lay Because Malcolm had managed to cork 'em |
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