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Nottingham Poetry Festival: John Hegley

Canalhouse, 48-52 Canal Street, Nottingham, NG1 7EH

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Nottingham Poetry Festival: John Hegley

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Friday 12 June 2026 | 7pm-10pm
Canalhouse
Tickets £12-£15 + booking fee

 

John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes

New and Selected Potatoes is the spud-in-cheek title of the compilation of 10 volumes of work by poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley. John will perform poems and songs from across his back-catalogue, alongside new pieces, focussing on his educational work and storytelling. Mandolin accompaniment is now expanded to include a Portuguese cavaquinho and a train whistle from Didcot Railway Centre. In places the audience will be invited to participate, emotionally.

The Observer commented "Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils" – although there is more about Keats than Wordsworth in the show. There is much about family and foolhardiness in an evening designed for adults, but not unsuitable for the odd nine-year-old.

 

 

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