BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10605@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250514T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250514T200000 DTSTAMP:20250503T145217Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-philharmonic-hall-bria n-bilston-henry-normal/ SUMMARY:Quakers Meeting House: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall: Brian Bilston & Henry Normal DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nBrian Bilston and Henry Normal appear together for the first time in a show which one critic has described as “two people read ing some poems.” \n\nAlong the way\, they will be drawing on their vast catalogue of crowd favourites – and throwing in new poems to prevent be coming their own tribute bands. \n\nNot ones to overpromise\, Brian and H enry are prepared to commit to delivering the greatest poetry show in the history of the world\, or their names aren’t Brian Bilston and Henry Nor mal. An evening of poems to be enjoyed\, not endured. \n\nBrian Bilston h as been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate\; with over 400\,000 followers on social media\, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. He has published several collectio ns of poetry\, including You Took the Last Bus Home and Alexa\, What Is There to Know About Love?\, described by one reviewer as ‘the funniest collection of humorous verse I have seen in a long time’. His novel Dia ry of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He has also written poetry for children\, including a collection of football poem s\, 50 Ways to Score a Goal\, while his acclaimed poem Refugees was set to music by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and turned into a picture book.  \n\nHenry is a writer\, poet\, TV and film producer\, founder of the Man chester Poetry Festival (now the Literature Festival)\, and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017\, he was honoured with a spec ial BAFTA for services to television. He co-wrote and script-edited the mu lti-award-winning Mrs Merton Show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton an d Malcolm. Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1990\, Henry executive p roduced all and script-edited many of the shows during its 17-and-a-half-y ear output. Highlights of the Baby Cow output during his time include the Oscar-nominated film Philomena\, I Believe in Miracles\, Gavin and Stac ey\, Moone Boy\, Uncle\, Marion and Geof\, Nighty Night\, The Mighty Boosh\, Red Dwarf\, Hunderby\, Camping\, and Alan Partridge. \n\nPres ented with the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.\n\n\n\nWe encourage people to use public transport to travel to events where possible.\n\nPublic Transpo rt: \n\nBus: 75\, 80\, 86\n\nNearest bus stop(s): Sugnall Street (Appro x. 1 min walk)\n\nNearest train station(s): Liverpool Central (Approx. 13 min walk)\, Liverpool Lime Street (Approx. 16 min walk)\n\n \;\n\n*Th ese are difficult times. We know some people may struggle to afford full p rice tickets. If you would like to attend this event but can’t afford to \, please contact info@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treate d in confidence.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKING &\; INFO\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/05/WOWFEST-25-WebHead.jpeg CATEGORIES:Literature & Poetry,Performance,Talks LOCATION:Quakers Meeting House\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BT\, Liverpo ol\, United Kingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BT\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Quakers Meet ing House:geo:53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR