Henningham Family Press

Work in Progress Book Fair, Sun 16th May 2010

By - David
Posted on May, 8, 2010May, 9, 2010

Sunday 16th May 2010, 12noon FREE 96-98 Pentonville Road, N1 We’ve been invited to host a stall at a book event called Work in Progress, at the Lexington. For people who have asked when they’ll be able to come and browse through a copy of the Neglected Interviews, this is a good time. Many of

Listen again to the Verb, or even for the first time

By - David
Posted on May, 8, 2010May, 12, 2011

We had a great time last night, broadcasting the Chip Shop as part of a live edition of the Verb from the BBC Radio Theatre. Our dictionary lies in great need of repair after being put through its paces by the wonderful verb audience. Their favourite words are obviously almost part of the family. One

Clegg’s Last Tape

By - David Barnes
Posted on May, 6, 2010May, 6, 2010

So it emerges that Nick Clegg has been a Samuel Beckett fan all along. I couldn’t help wondering what an election scripted by Beckett would look like: The stage light slowly illuminates a rocky plateau. Buried in pebbles up to their necks are BROWN, CLEG and CAM. BROWN. Finished, all finished now. Old Brown’s gone

Chip Shop BBC Radio 3 Word Appeal!

By - David
Posted on April, 30, 2010May, 12, 2011

Here’s your chance to suggest words for our menu on the Verb. Either email us directly or add a comment below with up to two of your favourite words, and we will hand-pick the freshest entries to be printed for the show. Members of the Verb audience and recipients of their newsletter now have until

Chip Shop live on BBC Radio 3

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on April, 30, 2010May, 12, 2011

Friday 7th May, 9.15pm on The Verb Following his performance of the Chip Shop Poem, a poem composed of the words generated by the Chip Shop at the London Word Festival 2010, Ian McMillan enjoyed the Chip Shop so much he asked us to come on his BBC Radio 3 ‘caberet of the word’ show,

Drei Schreit fur alles

By - Eddie
Posted on April, 9, 2010April, 9, 2010

I really enjoyed reading Julie Rafalski’s last blog on the flagship site, Henningham Family Press. I liked how just one overheard word on the tube led to such a flow of information. The whole subject of how one writes or composes was foremost in my head yesterday as I tottered along Invalidenstrasse on a beautifully

McMillan Chip Shop Poem Review, Spoonfed 01.04.10

By - David
Posted on April, 1, 2010May, 12, 2011

Ian McMillan’s ‘the Verb’ on BBC Radio 3 has accompanied my news blackout of the last few months. I quit listening to or reading about current affairs after I realised it was mostly bad news, not ‘bad’ in the gloomy sense but rather the ‘inaccurate’. So it was fun to realise while listening to the

Jim Hobbs’ Shelf Exhibition, 27th-28th March

By - David
Posted on March, 28, 2010April, 1, 2010

I was asked to add a sculpture to a brief exhibition held by our good friend Jim Hobbs, in his studio in Peckham. The reception last night was a great fun occassion. I loaned this: It is about 170mm long. We were also asked to respond to a list of numbers found on one of

Le Cool Interview

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on March, 23, 2010May, 12, 2011

An interview of us in Le Cool Magazine.

Chip Shop 3: Keep Printing & Carry On Photos

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on March, 22, 2010May, 12, 2011

Thanks to all who came, it was totally sold out! We had a great time and hope you did too. It turned out to be a wonderful evening of printing mayhem! Here are a few photos, more may follow later: Last chance to see Chip Shop at the London Word Festival will be on Wednesday