Brian Bilston and Henry Normal - Sheffield Performance Venues
Sheffield Performance Venues
What: Brian Bilston and Henry Normal
When: Saturday 24th May, 2025, 7:00 pm
Who: GCSE/A-Level English students
Where: Octagon Centre
Brian Bilston and Henry Normal appear together for the first time in a show which one critic has described as “two people reading some poems”.
Along the way, they will be drawing on their vast catalogue of crowd favourites – and throwing in new poems, to prevent becoming their own tribute bands.
Not ones to overpromise, Brian and Henry 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 Normal. An evening of poems to be enjoyed not endured.
Brian Bilston has 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.
Henry Normal 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. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to Television.
‘Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines’
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian
‘A mixture of the absurd and downright wacky…a gentle giant of stand-up poetry’
The List
