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Guff
Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words writing the man. Words drive him into the cave of himself where he questions everything including words that seem to constitute answers and answers that question both questions and answers. Do poets write poems or do poems write poets? And consider the shape of that question-mark, like a snake twisting in its sleep: so twisting, or twisted snakes, lie beside Guff as he tries to sleep in his cave, led now by the words that the snake hisses in his old head. All through his book-length poem Guff hears both the hissing of the words he believes he loves as well as the hissing mysteries of love. Guff is prey to the ruthless continuity of one word leading to another, until these words relax and settle down into what he thinks, or hopes, is "meaning". Like Kennelly's Cromwell, The Book of Judas and Poetry My Arse, Guff is a knockabout Swiftian satire, a mischievous meditation on the human condition. It's also a powerfully expressive hymn to life with all its flaws, a snaking poem with the movement of a river in its different moods from cold anger to summer warmth for minds and bodies, which asks who or what is a genuinely noble person? Dublin is the backdrop to Guff's jabbering quest, a city where haunted men walk the streets talking to themselves, at times with passion, at times with an air of secrecy or self-accusation, at times as if seeking a friend prepared to listen. Guff is a brother to these strange wanderers. In the poem he becomes at one or at odds with them.
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Art and Guff
Lost in the big city, Art and Guff may just be 'two dull boys from Kidwelly', but still they're desperate to make it. Time's running out for Art. Are they destined to go right back to the mobile library and hardware store? There's two wierdos downstairs, Auntie Jo has just died and their giros keep disappearing. Is somebody trying to tell them something? Is it any wonder they're paranoid? Art and Guff was first produced by Sgript Cymru at the Soho Theatre, London, 2001
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Oliver Gruffle Secrets of Harmony Haven
It’s another exciting day for the friends Pal, the border collie, and the piglets Pickle and Patsy. The newcomers have now happily settled into their new home in Harmony Haven, a secret place on the Isle of Wight. For today the friends will attend the serious ‘Ceremony of Vows’ where they, in front of everyone, will promise to be kind and caring to all of the members of this happy community.In charge of this ceremony is their loving guardian Oliver Gruffle with his amazing alien special powers. But with him is Obie Owl, the ‘Keeper of the Vows’, who is a very rude owl indeed. But will the ceremony be serious when Obie turns up with a fan of peacock feathers attached to his rear end.Further mayhem occurs when the magical cat Ben McRadich arrives, declaring himself to be a hero. He has captured the wanted mole and wants to claim the reward for this. But the real hero of this adventure is Hercules, the little robot boy, who is the one who captured the mole. Arriving on a cannon, if Ben does not tell the truth he intends to fire him into the air. But will Oliver Gruffle allow this?Later, the friends meet Peter Pixie, who also has a reputation for being mischievous. Oliver decides to take the four friends on an adventure to the sorting office, where letters go before being sent to Father Christmas. Will Oliver regret this decision? He just might!
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