A wildly original poetry collection from one of the UK’s most exciting young comics, this collection is full of poems by Key (award-winning) primarily about love, sex, dreams, death, and fruit (strawberries, beans etc). The publishing of the book in no way ties in with things like "demand" or "clamor," but is more a result of Key having a full English breakfast with the right person at the right time. Key is not the sort of person to take offense if you don't buy his book but instead replace it on its shelf or lazily slot it between a couple of DBC Pierres or dump it by a pot plant next to the till. Key's just happy that someone has bothered to touch it.

The Incomplete Tim Key

Humor & Entertainment

Key, Tim

Humor

Canongate UK

Instructions, Guidelines, Tuteledge, Suggestions, Other Suggestions, and Examples etc: An Attempted Tim Key

The Invisible Dot Ltd

This is a PAPERBACK BOOK. And it is ram-jammed full of poems by KEY. Originally it was conceived and sold as a hardback book. Increasingly KEY has agitated for that brute to be superseded by something more chic; a slimmer, more athletic version that one can slide into a pocket or down a rugby sock. And now here it is. 
Within its featherweight pages you will find the vast majority of the same poems as you'll find in its unwieldy predecessor. Poems skewering such thorny issues as sex, pancakes, footy and vodka. But, in order to drum up renewed interest, KEY has also added a new poem. And there are also seven new introductions. And KEY has also been allowed to waddle round the text with his Lamy fountain pen, altering and updating. Improving. Making everything just so. For this: THE PAPERBACK.

The Incomplete Tim Key: About 300 of his poetical gems and what-nots

CANONGATE BOOKS *

In March 2020, Tim Key started writing poetry and conversations about the first lockdown. At the end of the year he published these comtemplations in “He Used Thought as a Wife”, a book for these pandemic times, beautifully designed by his long time collaborator, Emily Juniper. The collection became a Times Bestseller and that would have been that. Except the United Kingdom got locked down once more, at the start of 2021. And Key started to write once more. “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush” is a chronicle of Key’s life as the new lockdown took hold. Where the first book is set entirely in the confines of Key’s North London apartment, this one is its mirror. Every conversation, every glimpse of Key occurs in the outdoors. He has been granted permission to walk by the government, and it is in these moments that we see him. Each time, he is either on the blower to one of his allies, or, occasionally, exercising with a real-life friend. The whole time lamenting and processing the “new normal”. And interspersed with these playlets, there is poetry. About the mad new laws, the mad law-makers, about bubbles, vaccines and variants. Emily Juniper has again come up with a beautiful, eye-catching design, as she and Key continue to dovetail through the chaos. She is both the glue that keeps Key’s life together throughout the book. And she serves the same purpose in real life, too. Emily has chosen paperstock and they have teamed up with Calverts of London to print. Once more Emily’s publishing house – “Utter” and Press – have sent the book into the world. Again they have fired out a limited pre-Christmas print-run to Key’s Instagram followers, and now the book sets forth beyond that, into the high street and beyond.

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush: An Anthology of Poems and Conversations from Outside

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Utter Press

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