Join us for an entertaining evening event celebrating Nic’s accessible and hilarious poetry. This event has now sold out! Thank you for your support.

Perfect for sharing and demanding to be read aloud, this funny, pithy, highly relatable collection of small but perfectly formed poems provides the antidote to the manifold frustrations and absurdities of adult life. A verse companion to modern parenthood, it is the ideal gift for any mother or father whose children know they are wrong about everything.

‘Nic Aubury’s poetry is proper poetry in the Betjeman/Wendy Cope tradition, and it’s an utter delight – memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years.’ – Sophie Hannah

Nic read Classics at Oxford and now teaches Latin and Greek for a living. He had a chapbook, Small Talk, published by Nasty Little Press in 2011, a book which was named by Sophie Hannah in the Sunday Express as one of her books of the year for 2011. His first full collection, Cold Soup, was also published by Nasty Little Press in 2013. Some of his poems were included in the Carcanet anthology New Poetries VI (2015), and also appeared in the Penguin anthology The Poetry of Sex (2014) edited by Sophie Hannah.

His most recent collection Ignore It All and Hope It Goes Away: Poems for Modern Life (2022) is published by David Fickling Books and is accompanied by illustrations from popular comic artist Moose Allain. He has performed his poetry at various festivals including Port Eliot, Latitude, the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Recently he began producing a weekly four-line poem for the New European, a weekly, liberal, explicitly pro-EU political and cultural newspaper and website.

Nic will be in conversation with Farah Sharp, a comedian and presenter, named ‘One to Watch’ by the Funny Women Awards 2023. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4 as well as at Latitude and Leeds Festivals, she also happens to be one of Nic’s ex-pupils!

Kindly sponsored by Lower Farm Bed & Breakfast https://www.lower-farm.co.uk/

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