The Fire Hills was written between December 2021 and November 2022. Reflecting the first year of the author's move to Fairlight in East Sussex, this collection explores new landscapes, armed only with a pen and unwarranted optimism.
Henry Normal Book order






- 2023
- 2021
The Distance Between Clouds
- 124 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Exploring themes of joy, positivity, and optimism, this poetry collection captures the essence of human experience during a challenging period from June 2020 to March 2021. Henry Normal's work offers a refreshing perspective, aiming to celebrate life and connection amidst uncertainty, emphasizing the importance of love and remembrance.
- 2021
Henry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean.
- 2020
The Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal. - Radio TimesThe Alan Bennett of poetry - The Scotsman
- 2020
The Beauty Within Shadow
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020. These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we'd usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions.
- 2019
An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal... Written between October 2018 and July 2019, these poems are concerned with the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract notions that get in the way of lunch.
- 2018
This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. The Alan Bennett of poetry - The Scotsman
- 2018
Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. Published by Five Leaves in 2016, revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018.
- 2018
The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. Distinctly funny - Time Out
- 2018
A Normal Family
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The Reason I Jump from the parents' perspective