Postcards from the Hedgehog

A.F. Harrold

ISBN 9781901677522

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An original; weird and wonderful.. The Best of A.F. Harrold’s poems have a subversive humour that is quite brilliant. – Brian Patten

More naturally selective than Darwin, more probing than Palin – and a damn sight funnier than Bellamy – this is a delightful zoological garden of vertebrate verse. AF has captured some € ne specimens, which he dissects with a quipping quill. – Marcus Moore, Spiel Productions

What can one say about A F Harrold that hasn’t already been said? He’s like a cross between______ and_________ [remember to €ll in some names here]. Some people say that all of A F Harrold’s poems are about yaks, but a quick subject-count shows that this is not strictly true. Although there are more poems here about yaks than about anything else, they do not have a majority. All it needs is an amphisbaena and it’d be like one of those medieval bestiaries you used to get.

Postcards from the Hedgehog sustained me for the whole duration of a bus-ride to Mortlake, and made me forget that I was having to stand. By the time we reached Barnes pond, I was even tapping my foot, I think. Every poem contains moments of pirouetting genius, although I didn’t understand the one about the arti€cial spider. And I was a bit worried because my last book had “hedgehog” in the title, too. I think he may be copying me. – Rachel Pantechnicon

About A.F. Harrold…

A.F. Harrold was born in England in
1975. He then grew up. Now he does
things that aren’t quite normal on the
stage and on the page and in the bath.