The Events page has now been updated with the details of John's main gigs over the coming months. Highlights include John's new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet during August, and a new weekend workshop organised by ArtBreak Motel in September.

You can now visit our Links page for details of artistic happenings other than John's own gigs that have taken his fancy. Includes a very fetching photo of John in a big blue hat taken when he recently visited Perth in Scotland!

John was recently named as Patron of this rapidly growing event which has been running since 2003, and will be performing there on 5 July. See the Events and Links pages for more details.

The winning entries can be viewed by clicking here.

John visited Chorlton Park Primary School in Manchester recently to perform to children and parents, and a group of Year 6 children grabbed the opportunity to interview him about his poetry. Click here to see Chorlton Park's blog and hear the interview online.

And click here for John's thoughts on Morris Dancing in The Guardian's online comment pages......

Seventeen adventures and one short drama, each presented in French and English.

John's new book is available from Donut Press for the amazing bargain price of £5 with free delivery! An absolute must for aficionados of the Hegley oeuvre!

Find out more about the book.

John's book Uncut Confetti has a strong autobiographical strand and a running thread of animal-related poems.

There is the usual abundance of splendid drawings accompanied by a photograph or two.

Find out more about the book.

Share your poems, ideas, comments, musings, questions, witty stories, ditties and other words on the word wild message board.

Now with state-of-the-art security measures to stop spamming - see John's contact page for more details.