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Writer and humorist Robert Garnham has been performing comedy poetry all over the place since 2008. This collection of autobiographical essays spills the beans on the adventures and foibles that come with performing on the national circuit. From the Edinburgh Fringe to a cabaret in New York, to writing a poem for a friend's wedding, these non-fiction pieces from the Professor of Whimsy are guaranteed to raise more than a wry smile.

The transcript and poems from the new solo show from Robert Garnham, Spout.

These are poems about memory, place, and growing up. These are poems about the things that happen and the people you meet along the way. Fleeting encounters on sleeper trains, becoming invisible in a Japanese mega-city, growing up in a house on a hill in the woods glimpsing the whole of London from the back bedroom window, and dreaming, and becoming entranced by the neon. But most of all, these are poems about the woods. The forest. The tree...

Performance poet Robert Garnham spent the summer of 2020 interviewing those involved in the Brixham fishing industry, and learning all about the history of this Devon port. The result, commissioned by Torbay Culture, was the pamphlet 'Squidbox'. These poems are a celebration of a remarkable town with its rich history and culture, taking in themes such as war refugees, the role of women in the town's development, the environmental impact of fis...

Yay! Is a collection of upbeat poems for uncertain times, poems of imagination and escape, whimsy and warmth, humanity and honesty.

The long poems that have featured in the solo shows from performance poet and spoken word artist Robert Garnham.

In the Glare of the Neon Yak is a riproaring piece of spoken word storytelling set on a sleeper service in the middle of winter. A train full of circus performers are being stalked by a mysterious entity which seems to mean more than just its eerie manifestation. A portent, an omen, the Neon Yak symbolises dark times. Will our hero find love? Will Jacques, the tight rope walker, get back together again with his ex, the circus clown? Does the s...

These are suburban poems describing places we go to all the time. But they creep beneath the surface of reality and find a deeper truth, some colour beyond the monochrome. From supermarkets to trains and buses, libraries to pubs, and then further afield from the Amazon to the Arctic, this collection finds that one magic spark which unites us all. By turns laugh out loud funny and life affirming, celebratory and campaigning, this book shows tha...

Keine Beschreibung.

An anthology of the poems and poets who regularly perform at Torquay's Poetry Island, one of the best established performance poetry nights in the UK.

Robert arrives in Tokyo to find that the hotel have lost his booking information. This leads to an existentialist crisis as he is followed around by private ghosts and recent memories.