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POETRY IN PERFORMANCE

Brian Patten has read alongside such figures as Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Stevie Smith and Robert Lowell. His mix of serious and humorous work make him hard to equal in performance. With a reputation enhanced by each of his collections, and now translations into Italian, Spanish German & Polish, he is acknowledged as one of Europe's foremost poets.

FOR KIDS & PARENTS: Also special schools performances

GARGLING WITH JELLY
“Children will love it”- Junior Education

See the Invisible Man’s invisible dog! Turn the family unit into jelly! Fly off with your mother’s ear-wings! Brian Patten brings his infamous collection of hilarious, lyrical and outrageous poems to life in this hour long extravaganza of verse and worse. Meet the author of children’s cult classics Gargling with Jelly, Thawing Frozen Frogs and Juggling With Gerbils. With book signing after the show. Suitable for 7-11 year olds and their well behaved parents!

POETRY READINGS FOR ADULTS:

Love & Other Follies
Brian Patten reads from his new Collected Love Poems published February 2007 by Harper Perennial

Also for adults:
“GROWING UP BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES”

'Humour, sincerity, sheer brilliance - not to be missed' The Scotsman
'Radiant imagination' The Times
From first to second childhood and back again, with a little chaos and much humour on the way! Using a huge variety of his work, Liverpool poet Brian Patten takes us on a hilarious, sometimes dark, sometimes heart-rending and always fascinating journey through a chaotic boyhood, a love-struck adolescence and a disrespectful middle-age, to leave us teetering on the brink of yet another childhood. Book-signing after the show.

PS: Why not combine a morning or afternoon Schools/ Family show with an evening performance for adults!