John Hegley is widely known as one of the country’s most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. He is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival. He has performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the USA Comedy Festival in Aspen, with Ulrika Jonsson & Anita Dobson in The Pyjama Game and on BBC R4’s Hearing With Hegley.

John Hegley, performing at Whitstable Biennale 2006. Image 2006