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Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance.

Henry Normal's third volume of collected poems includes every poem from Strikingly Invisible, The Beauty Within Shadow and The Distance Between Clouds. "Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times

A poetic diary exploring new landscapes over four seasons, armed only with a pen and unwarranted optimism.

Collected Poems, Vol. 2 includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes, and Swallowing the Entire Ocean.

Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards.

The Distance Between Clouds is an all-new collection written between June 2020 and March 2021. "Finally, a collection of poetry about joy, positivity and optimism, before I die unloved and forgotten." - Henry Normal.

The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. "Distinctly funny" - Time Out

Travelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected by the author from his early works. Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television.

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. Published by Five Leaves in 2016, revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018.

This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. "In amongst his work lie some of the most tender, compassionate and moving pieces I have read from a modern poet" - Artful Reporter

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020. These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we'd usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions.

The Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. "Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman

Poetry.

All-new poetry from BAFTA winner Henry Normal. This collection concerns the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract notions that get in the way of lunch.

Johnny is twenty. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - he will probably never get a job, never have a girlfriend, never leave home. And over the last two decades this is what his father, TV producer and comedy writer Henry Normal and his wife Angela have been trying to come to terms with. This is a book for anyone whose life has been touched by autism - it's about the hope, the despair, and the messy, honest, somet...