Fergus McGonigal is a Midlands-based poet who has four collections of poetry: 'The Failed Idealist's Guide to the Tatty Truth' (Burning Eye Books, 2014), 'Everyone Is Now Unhappy' (Burning Eye Books, 2017), 'Writing With My Elsewhere Head' (BX3, 2019) and, for children, 'The Thought Which Fell Down the Back of the Sofa' (BX3, 2016); he is also featured in the Burning Eye anthology, 'The Best Spoken Word Poetry Book in the World' (Burning Eye Books, 2017). He has worked on poetry projects with Poetry on Loan, Worcestershire Museums, Worcestershire LitFest and Fringe, The National Trust, the Churches Conservation Trust, and NHS mental health services. He's won slams, he's appeared at festivals, he has a thing for hosting poetry nights, and he was Worcestershire Poet Laureate for 2014-15.
His poetry is by turns comic, whimsical, and surreal. Much of it rhymes, most of it scans, and a lot of it even makes sense.
You can read a variety of his published poems in the 'Books' section of this website. You can also head over to the fergusthepoet blog, now in its ninth year, where you can read any of 875 (and counting) pieces of poetry and prose.
You can contact him at: fergusthepoet@gmail.com
'Fergus McGonigal reaches the parts which other poets cannot reach' - CHELTENHAM POETRY FESTIVAL
A poet walks into a bookshop and asks, 'Do you have any Keats?' The person at the till replies, 'I dunno. What's a Keat?'
His poetry is by turns comic, whimsical, and surreal. Much of it rhymes, most of it scans, and a lot of it even makes sense.
You can read a variety of his published poems in the 'Books' section of this website. You can also head over to the fergusthepoet blog, now in its ninth year, where you can read any of 875 (and counting) pieces of poetry and prose.
You can contact him at: fergusthepoet@gmail.com
'Fergus McGonigal reaches the parts which other poets cannot reach' - CHELTENHAM POETRY FESTIVAL
A poet walks into a bookshop and asks, 'Do you have any Keats?' The person at the till replies, 'I dunno. What's a Keat?'