Fergus McGonigal is a Midlands-based poet who has three collections of poetry: 'The Failed Idealist's Guide to the Tatty Truth' (Burning Eye Books, 2014), 'Everyone Is Now Unhappy' (Burning Eye Books, 2017), and, for children, 'The Thought Which Fell Down the Back of the Sofa' (BX3, 2016). He has worked on diverse 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's hosted a long-running poetry night, and he was Worcestershire Poet Laureate for 2014-15.
His poetry is by turns comic, whimsical, and surreal (with a dash of nonsense); it has just the right amount of heavy stuff to balance it all out. Much of it rhymes, most of it scans, and all of it makes sense, so whatever you do: don’t tell The Poetry Police.
You can read and listen to a variety of his published poems in the 'Poems to Read and Hear' section of this website. You can also head over to the fergusthepoet blog, now in its seventh year, where you can read any of 675 (and counting) pieces of poetry and prose.
You can contact him at: fergusthepoet@gmail.com
His poetry is by turns comic, whimsical, and surreal (with a dash of nonsense); it has just the right amount of heavy stuff to balance it all out. Much of it rhymes, most of it scans, and all of it makes sense, so whatever you do: don’t tell The Poetry Police.
You can read and listen to a variety of his published poems in the 'Poems to Read and Hear' section of this website. You can also head over to the fergusthepoet blog, now in its seventh year, where you can read any of 675 (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?'