UK Comic Poet Les Barker

Les Barker writes strange poems and comes from originally from Manchester, but he's now Welsh. He was an accountant before he became a professional idiot. He's written 79 books, which sell in large numbers at his gigs because people don't quite believe what they've just heard. His poems have spawned a number of folk heroes: Jason and the Arguments, Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower, Captain Indecisive and Spot of the Antarctic, to name but two. Les began his career as assistant to Mrs Ackroyd, a small hairy mongrel who lay around in folk clubs, bit people and became famous. Mrs Ackroyd was the only dog ever to own her own record label.

Tickets are available from the Theatre's TimeOut Café (open 9-3 Mon-Sat).

"Les Barker is the greatest comedy talent we possess... He's a master at exploiting the idiosyncrasies of the English language, weaving in myth and history to build bizarre stories." - Agraman, City Life

"Les Barker proves that poetry can indeed be entertaining, dazzling the audience at Artworks [in 2003] with poems from his huge range of published works. His cardigan clad, unassuming manner on stage as he peers shyly at the audience through his spectacles, and his soft Manchester accent delivers the brilliant flow of words and ideas, leaving the listener gasping with laughter." - Gulf News

"Les Barker is more than silly: he is probably one of the silliest performers ever to grace Godfrey’s stage, and in a way that only a Brit could be silly. Part poetry, part monologue, but surely one of the most side-splitting evenings you can have. If you enjoy hearing the pun elevated to a true art form, this is the place to be. How can intelligence be so damned funny?" - Mike Space, Godfrey Daniels