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The dog is better suited to the hat even though the cat. 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 collection of verse and drawings tied in with the Dog tour which naturally touched 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." The Independent Dog contains some of Hegley's funniest and most touching poems to date. "Comedy's poet laureate" The Independent "Hegley is that literary rarity - a successful poet" The Guardian "John Hegley is a joy, technically deft and delightfully silly" The Daily Telegraph "Guerrilla wordsmith to the bold and beautiful, John Hegley crafts poetry which is deceptively simple; wisely foolish; funnily particular, and peculiarly funny" The Glasgow Herald ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 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 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. 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. Rights and Permissions Information: Permissions applications to use material from Dog within another publication should be submitted by email to methuenpubltd@btinternet.com (or by fax to 020 7828 1244).
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