Backstage at the Kilburn & West Hampstead Literary Festival 

and Poetry Slam the veteran poet Oliver Bentley is challenged

to write a Haiku about a biscuit

The Author discovers the work of the great Finnish

film director Aki Olavi Kaurismaki and in a moment

of misguided enthusiasm attempts to adopt

 old-fashioned Socialist Worker fashions

The Author discovers the life of the artist at an early age

A suggestion that the Author might make an appearance

 at this year's Hay Literary Festival 

is rejected by the organisers (above) on the grounds that

 he is not  an Actor, Singer, Sportsman, Celebrity Chef or TV star

The booksellers W H Smith celebrate thirty years

 of successfully ignoring the Author's work

But all too soon the Big Hair Years 

become the Windswept Look

The Author - more from the Big Hair Years