Matt Harvey

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A Little Book of Monsters promises 'good, honest, wicked, disrespectful attitude'

15 Jan 2013

The family concert will also feature excerpts from Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes

‘I thought he was the funniest man I’d ever met,’ recalls composer Stephen Deazley of the first time he was introduced to writer Matt Harvey. Deazley later found himself laughing out loud to Harvey’s poetry, attracting some odd looks in an Edinburgh…

The Songbook of Unsingable Songs

15 Oct 2009

Nonsense and surrealism in this show of songs for children

The songs in Stephen Deazley and Matt Harvey’s new songbook may be many things — funny, sad, silly, quirky. One thing they most certainly are not, however, is unsingable. So, why the superb — but cheekily misleading — title? ‘We both wanted to create…

Matt Harvey

12 Aug 20093 stars

Love poems for household objects, and other unusual ideas

Like the subject of one of his poems, Harvey’s show is low key. There’s a quirky charm in love poems to homely subjects such as Ibuprofen, tea bags and the potato while the Radio 4 contributor’s proposals for a harmonious society include ‘uncertainty…