Uncut Confetti

About Uncut Confetti

A major new volume from 'comedy's poet laureate'

The Independent

New poems, prose and pictures, a mixture of moods, jolly, melancholy, reflective, detective, tales from home and abroad, an uttering of fluttering delight.

The title Uncut Confetti has suggested a few images.

One is a confetti which has not been bulked out with inferior, extraneous material such as railway ticket snippings or small bits of toilet tissue.

Another is a pair of newly-weds, having whole sheets of confetti paper heaved over them on exit from the church or registry office.

And a third is a series of newly printed pages ripe for shredding into the appropriate nuptial shapes - a loose collection of celebratory pieces.

The Author

John Hegley

John Hegley performs live at venues all over Britain, including London's Hackney and Bloomsbury Theatres, at the Edinburgh Festival, and recently in New Zealand and Australia. He appears on television and radio and his poems are featured regularly in the 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.

Reviews

'John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils'

The Observer

'Scandalously talented... an inventive, eccentric, comic intelligence'

The Sunday Times

'Awesomely mundane'

The Independent

A major new volume from 'comedy's poet laureate'

The Independent