Join Alistair McGowan for a special event celebrating the publication of his new poetry collection, Like Never Before.

Comic, poignant, and observational, Like Never Before embraces the theme of a changing world – linguistically, politically, and environmentally – and the changes we all experience as we age. This is Alistair – like never before – commenting on a world that is accelerating like never before.

Alistair McGowan is best known for his impressions, winning a BAFTA in 2003 for his BBC One series The Big Impression. He has also worked as an actor, regularly on radio, occasionally on television, and nationwide on stage (being nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance as The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors).
Alistair has written his own stand-up comedy throughout his 35-year career. He also wrote the stage play Timing (nominated for best new comedy in the WhatsOnStage Awards), and three Radio 4 plays about composers Erik Satie and John Field and the first performance of Pygmalion. He wrote the majority of the sketches in four series of The Big Impression and the book A Matter of Life and Death with his former comedy partner, Ronni Ancona.
Like Never Before is his second poetry collection.

Praise for the author’s poetry:
“All the wit you’d expect and yearn for but with a really surprising and delicious sensitivity.” Joanna Lumley
“Sometimes just funny, then melancholic, occasionally beautifully profound, always insightful and well observed.” Franny Moyle
“Verbally adroit, often witty, revealing a considered view of the world. Masterly.” Simon Callow

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