Clare Ferguson-Walker
"Clare is an award winning performance poet, comedienne sculptor and singer who's
first spoken word show "California Scheming" toured the UK to rave reviews.
"A glorious trip around the West Coast along with a trip around this incredible woman's
mind, hilarious and deeply touching" 5 stars. Metro.
She's supported John Cooper Clarke and Phil Jupitus in her guise as poet who describe
her as "Funny as Fuck" and "Absurdly Talented" and has headlined at literature events
all over the country.
"Clare Ferguson-Walker has bite and tenderness, she can be as raw as a wound and
then as funny as any stand-up." Radio 4's Matt Harvey
As a singer, Clare is currently working with legendary producer Craig Leon on their
debut collaboration set to be released in the new year.
Clare's sculptures have gained her international recognition, with shows in Japan, LA
and San Francisco, her work appears in public and private collections all over the world
and she was recently named in the Times as one of the U.K's leading female sculptors."
John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original ‘people’s poet’.
Johnny Vegas stars as Moz, as award-winning BBC TV series comes to the stage for very first time, celebrating 20 years since the show’s first broadcast.
Henry is a writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival.
Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 200,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community.
Two poets from different planets crash land onto stages across the U.K and Ireland, making a poetic and comedic show greater than the sum of its parts....(never ask a lady the sum of her parts). Expect poems, puns, laughter and tales from these two brilliant wordsmiths.
Nigel Planer was an original member of the comedy groups at the centre of the ‘Alternative Comedy’ movement in the 1980s and starred in the seminal TV series The Young Ones, and The Comic Strip Presents.
Graham Nash, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award winner, will perform songs spanning his sixty-year career from The Hollies to Crosby, Stills and Nash, to CSNY and his beloved solo career.
Whether he’s opening for the Libertines or reciting Georgian ballads down your local, Luke Wright is adept at taking poetry places it doesn’t normally go.