{"product_id":"staring-directly-at-the-eclipse-by-henry-normal","title":"Staring directly at the eclipse by Henry Normal","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers.\u003cbr\u003eFirst published by Five Leaves, Staring Directly at the Eclipse is revised and re-issued in paperback and eBook by Flapjack Press in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\"Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines\" - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"The Alan Bennett of poetry\" - The Scotsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television.\u003cbr\u003eHenry co-wrote and script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs Merton Show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. With Steve Coogan, he co-wrote the BAFTA-winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, Tony Ferrino, Doctor Terrible, all of Steve's live tours, and the film The Parole Officer.\u003cbr\u003eSetting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1999, Henry Executive Produced all, and script edited many, of the shows of its seventeen-and-a-half-year output during his tenure as MD. Highlights of the Baby Cow output during this time include Oscar-nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey, I Believe in Miracles, Moone Boy, The Mighty Boosh, Marion and Geoff, Red Dwarf, Uncle, Nighty Night, Camping, Hunderby and Alan Partridge.\u003cbr\u003eSince retiring in April 2016, Henry has written and performed four BBC Radio 4 shows, A Normal Family, A Normal Life, A Normal Love and A Normal Imagination, combining comedy, poetry and stories about bringing up his autistic son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"richProductInformation_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"rich_product_information\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-none celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"region\" class=\"a-begin a-carousel-container a-carousel-display-stretchyGoodness a-carousel-transition-slide a-spacing-none rpi-section rpi-section-iconic a-carousel-initialized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-row a-carousel-controls a-carousel-row a-carousel-has-buttons\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-carousel-row-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-carousel-col a-carousel-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-carousel-viewport\" id=\"anonCarousel3\"\u003e\n\u003col class=\"a-carousel\" role=\"list\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"a-carousel-card rpi-carousel-attribute-card\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"rpi-attribute-book_details-publication_date\" class=\"a-section rpi-attribute-content celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-none a-text-center rpi-attribute-value\"\u003e\u003ca role=\"button\" class=\"a-declarative\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"a-carousel-card rpi-carousel-attribute-card\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"rpi-attribute-book_details-file_size\" class=\"a-section rpi-attribute-content celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-text-center rpi-attribute-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beyond Books Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58434221736310,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/2969\/8658\/files\/staring.jpg?v=1786450469","url":"https:\/\/www.beyond-books.co.uk\/products\/staring-directly-at-the-eclipse-by-henry-normal","provider":"Beyond Books Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}