Henry Normal

Henry is a writer, poet, TV and 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. He co-wrote and script edited the multi-award winning show Mrs Merton and the spin off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. Henry performs poetry at literature festivals around the UK and has fourteen poetry books available from Flapjack. His latest collection Collected Poems and Other Landfill will be released Autumn 2026. He was recently given an honorary doctorate of letters by Nottingham Trent University, another by Nottingham University and has a beer and a bus named after him in Nottingham!