A event held at Arnolfini on Saturday 22nd April. The event starts at 19:00.
Price: £10 (£8 concessions)
Time: 19:00 - 20:30pm
Biscuit of Destiny is the new show from celebrated poet and musician John Hegley. Across a 90-minute performance, John introduces a clutch of new verses, a few older favourites and a cardboard camel with a moving jaw.
The biscuits in the show derive from a phrase used by Romantic Poet, John Keats: 'a scarcity of buiscuit' - neither the subject matter nor spelling you would expect from a Romantic Poet. The show delves into the more eccentric side of Keats, alongside everyday goings-on in the Hegley homes of now and yesteryear. It includes 7 drawings of elephants, myths, discos, daleks, optional community singing and the search for a sense of self-worth.
The show won a 'Lustrum Award' at the Edinburgh Festival 2022.
‘Just because he is one of the funniest men alive, do not underestimate his dedicated genius’ - Adrian Mitchell, New Statesman
JOHN HEGLEY:
John Hegley was born in Newington Green, Islington, North London. and now lives in the neighbouring borough of Hackney. He led two John Peel sessions with his band The Popticians on Radio1 in 1983/4, hosted the Border TV poetry series, Word of Mouth in 1989 and was a Perrier Comedy Award nominee in the same year. There have been three series of Hearing with Hegley on BBC Radio 4 - 1996-2000 and Hegley was the BBC Online poet in residence 1999. In 2010 – he worked with Company Paradiso in Warning, May Contain Nuts alongside BBC Radios Sussex and Berkshire, challenging stigmas around mental illness.
Hegley was Keats House poet in residence in 2012, and in 2019, Arts Council England funded his touring collaborative project Putting You in the Picture; working with fellow poets to take children to art galleries to delve into, and respond to art works with drawing, writing and cut-out paper characters. Currently he is working on a story about a travelling Frenchman, to be performed with a brass octet.
‘Awesomely mundane’ - The Independent
‘Scandalously talented’ - Sunday Times
‘Bleeding marvellous’ - NME
‘Marvellous, joyful fun’ - The Telegraph
Agreeable whimsy, distinctive comic perspective and ear-catching poems and songs’ - Chortle
‘Makes little sense’ - Luton News
Presented as part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
Time: 19:00 - 20:30pm
Biscuit of Destiny is the new show from celebrated poet and musician John Hegley. Across a 90-minute performance, John introduces a clutch of new verses, a few older favourites and a cardboard camel with a moving jaw.
The biscuits in the show derive from a phrase used by Romantic Poet, John Keats: 'a scarcity of buiscuit' - neither the subject matter nor spelling you would expect from a Romantic Poet. The show delves into the more eccentric side of Keats, alongside everyday goings-on in the Hegley homes of now and yesteryear. It includes 7 drawings of elephants, myths, discos, daleks, optional community singing and the search for a sense of self-worth.
The show won a 'Lustrum Award' at the Edinburgh Festival 2022.
‘Just because he is one of the funniest men alive, do not underestimate his dedicated genius’ - Adrian Mitchell, New Statesman
JOHN HEGLEY:
John Hegley was born in Newington Green, Islington, North London. and now lives in the neighbouring borough of Hackney. He led two John Peel sessions with his band The Popticians on Radio1 in 1983/4, hosted the Border TV poetry series, Word of Mouth in 1989 and was a Perrier Comedy Award nominee in the same year. There have been three series of Hearing with Hegley on BBC Radio 4 - 1996-2000 and Hegley was the BBC Online poet in residence 1999. In 2010 – he worked with Company Paradiso in Warning, May Contain Nuts alongside BBC Radios Sussex and Berkshire, challenging stigmas around mental illness.
Hegley was Keats House poet in residence in 2012, and in 2019, Arts Council England funded his touring collaborative project Putting You in the Picture; working with fellow poets to take children to art galleries to delve into, and respond to art works with drawing, writing and cut-out paper characters. Currently he is working on a story about a travelling Frenchman, to be performed with a brass octet.
‘Awesomely mundane’ - The Independent
‘Scandalously talented’ - Sunday Times
‘Bleeding marvellous’ - NME
‘Marvellous, joyful fun’ - The Telegraph
Agreeable whimsy, distinctive comic perspective and ear-catching poems and songs’ - Chortle
‘Makes little sense’ - Luton News
Presented as part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
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