Staring Directly at the Eclipse

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work.

This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers.

Published by Five Leaves in 2016, revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018.

"Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian

"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman