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Article: Arts Diary: Poetry: John Hegley, Everyman.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2005
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Byline: PETER GRANT
JOHN HEGLEY opened the first of his two nights at the Everyman with a couple of visionary songs with a theme close to his heart - eyesight.
The first, a celebration of spectacles called Glasses, was followed by a musical ode to contact lenses.
Hegley makes the ordinary seem magical. He's on a large UK tour which kicked off in his native Luton and it ends there. He will, however, be calling into Chester's Gateway on February 24.
His slick mix of poetry, word play and song is engaging from start to finish. He may look like Elvis Costello but he sounds like nobody else.
With nine books to his credit Hegley is ...