Comic, poet, singer, songwriter, and glasses-wearer John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country. Glad to Wear Glasses is his first full-length collection, and includes several of his pieces regularly featured in the Guardian, and over 70 of his surprising, comic, serious, disconcerting, economical, and always original poems.

Glad to Wear Glasses

Humor & Entertainment

HEGLEY, JOHN

Humor

Andre Deutsch

Comic, poet, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with numerous appearances on radio and television. In the Observer's Expert's Expert feature, he was chosen as a top fringe comedian by his peers. Time Out describes him as fabulously funny. Glad to Wear Glasses is Hegley's first full-length collection. It includes several of his pieces regularly featured in the Guardian. It includes over seventy of Hegley's surprising, comic, serious, disconcerting, economical and always original poems.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Chameleon

Stanley's Stick is a teaming-up of hefty talents - glorious poet John Hegley and award-winning illustrator Neal Layton. Stanley's stick is not just a stick. With a stick in hand, Stanley's options are endless - he flies to the moon, writes in the sand, goes fishing, plays a whistle and rides a dinosaur - and his imagination takes over and the magic begins. 
 Hegley's lyrical prose captures the free-wheeling expressiveness of childhood, and Layton's deceptively simple illustrations are full of wit and character. Sweet, magical and thoroughly entertaining, this is Hegley and Layton's first collaboration.

Stanley's Stick

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Hachette Children's

An illustrated collection of poems by John Hegley, one of the generation of cabaret performers who cut their teeth at the Comedy Store in the early 1980s.

Can I Come Down Now Dad?

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Love Cuts

This is a collection of three books. Very thin books. All three volumes—Brother-in-Law and Other Animals, Can I Come Down Now Dad?, and These Were Your Father's—share an interest in the absurdity and tragedy of everyday family relationships, and where possible humor is used to bring these out.

Family Pack

Dramas & Plays

The SOUND OF PAINT DRYING

This collection brings together many of John Hegley's trademark themes - dogs, glasses, Luton - and joins them with a moving and humorous series of meditations, poems and stories on the parent-child relationship; from John's response to his father to John's daughter's response to himself.

The Sound of Paint Drying

John describes the book thus: "a collection of poems, sketches, songs, stories, and diary entries which date back to my days in a Luton bungalow. More recently documented are my travels to Australia, Cyprus, Columbia, Thailand, and France. The French trip, which was recorded for BBC Radio 4, was stimulated by a painting of old Nice made by my father in 1931. It was my self-appointed task to find the scene and paint my own version. The travels are littered with ordinary things painted large: potatoes, facecloths, blancmange, throat sweets, and litter."

Contemporary

John Hegley's collections of poetry share a common interest in the absurdity and tragedy of everyday family relationships, and where possible humour is used to bring these out.

Beyond our kennel

METHUEN

"An inventive, eccentric, comic intelligence."-Sunday Times "If he wasn't so profound a poet, he'd probably be regarded more seriously as a comedian, and if he wasn't such a fine comedian, he'd certainly be taken far more seriously as a poet."-Guardian "Plenty of new tricks to ensure he can still have his day."-London Evening Standard "Barking."-Independent "I love this man, who is he?"-Ilsa Yardley, Proof Reader

A&C Black

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Glad to Wear Glasses

Glad to Wear Glasses

Stanley's Stick

Can I Come Down Now Dad?

Love Cuts

Family Pack

The Sound of Paint Drying

The SOUND OF PAINT DRYING

Beyond our kennel

Dog