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"The poet on peak form, as Cupid stomps on his glasses" (Independent)
Love Cuts includes tales of plasters and other aspects of the fabric of life. There are various episodes of emotional injury and subsequent attempts at wound management, including a lengthy documentation of the escapist quest for the holy spectacles. Alongside this there are further investigations into the author's relationship with art, his father, football, spuds, railways and sack racing. "Hegley is that literary rarity - a successful poet, whose three slim volumes of verse repay debts to the pop ballads of Merseybeat bards such as Roger McGough and Brian Patten, the psychedelic psycho-babble of John Lennon, and the nonsense rhymes of Victorians Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll" (Guardian)
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About John Hegley John Hegley performs live in venues all over Britain, including London's Hackney and Bloomsbury Theatres and the Edinburgh Festival, and recently in New Zealand and Australia. He appears on television and radio and his poems are featured regularly in the Weekend Guardian. He has published five volumes of poetry.His various media appearances include Wogan, Ross, Anderson, a mention on Brookside, two John Peel sessions with musical outfit The Popticians, They Think It's All Over and a host of others. He has also been the subject of a BBC Radio 4 series Hearing With Hegley and his poems are featured regularly in the Weekend Guardian.
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