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The bestselling poetry collection from "one of the funniest men alive" (New Statesman) - a sniffing, growling, yowling, yelping, eighth helping of Hegley
A mongrel mix of prose, poem, cartoon strip, letter and limerick, musings upon his mum, his chum, his love, his love's loss and salvation at the paws of his chum's mum's Welsh Border Collie, John Hegley's eagerly awaited new collection of verse and drawings ties in with the national Dog tour which naturally touches on all things canine: "Conceived partly as an antidote to Cats, Dog could not be further from the glitzy vacuity of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical." (Independent). Dog contains some of Hegley's funniest and most touching poems to date.
"The dog is better suited to the hat
even though the cat
seems born to it by rhyming." "Comedy's poet laureate" (Independent); "Hegley is that literary rarity - a successful poet" (Guardian); "John Hegley is a joy, technically deft and delightfully silly" (Daily Telegraph); "Guerrilla wordsmith to the bold and beautiful, John Hegley crafts poetry which is deceptively simple; wisely foolish; funnily particular, and peculiarly funny" (Glasgow Herald)
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About John Hegley John Hegley lives in North London, where he was born. He recently received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Luton, in which town he grew up. He accompanies some of his verses on the mandolin. He has worked on buses, in a social security office, a hospital and a rag-cleaning factory, but it is the theatre he loves best. His dog ran away in 1985.
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