…The tap dancing bards that are the inestimable Roger McGough CBE, and his slightly younger, poetic hoofer, Stewart Henderson return to The cornerHOUSE Community Arts Centre, Douglas Road, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 7SB on Friday 20th November @ 7.30pm, for an evening of their poetry, show-biz sonnets and glittery stories of their encounters with those ‘who have gone on’.
Tickets in advance @ £20.00 each from ticketsource.com
Read more…and following on from the August performance @ Scargill House in the Yorkshire Dales, another performance in the midst of breathtaking countryside. This one is in the autumnal, bronze bounty of Allendale, Northumberland , in the handsome, Grade II Listed, St. Cuthbert’s Church, Market Place, Allendale Town, Hexham, Northumberland. NE47 9BD on Saturday 10th October @ 7.30pm.
Read moreThe American based Poetry Unbound podcast features one of Stewart’s poems, ‘How To Speak Love In A Storm’ in its February 2026 schedule. The 15 minute audio celebration is presented by best selling poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and which is a discourse on the poem’s continuing relevance, described by Pádraig as ‘a masterclass in therapy’; and ‘one to which I have such debt and gratitude…’. The poem first appeared in Stewart’s second collection for Hodder & Stoughton, ‘Homeland’, published in 1993.
Read more…and to prove it, it’s here! The Last Brightness of Everything CD and book, combined. Our new, ideally heard, ‘in one sitting’, song, script and poetry cycle of requiem, reverence and love letter to ‘how we became’, with the rather swish Tote Bag option, too. The ‘Store’ page awaits all the purchasing gubbins, therein…thank you.
Read more…their new album The Last Brightness of Everything from Stewart and Yvonne and Carol will premiére at The Beacon Arts Centre, Custom House Quay, Greenock, Scotland. PA15 1HJ on Saturday 8th November, 2025 @ 8.00pm. The book, with accompanying CD will be available from ’Store’ on this website from end of October @ £20.00 plus p&p. Album artwork Totebag will also be on sale @ £10. Plus p&p.
Read moreWith the American election precariously in view, Stewart has penned this haunting lament, sung movingly by long-time collaborator, BBC Music Award winner, Martyn Joseph, who composed the melody… ‘Magnificent’ - folking.com
Read moreOn 1st February, HRH The Prince of Wales visited the ‘Metamorphosis’ ikonography exhibition at The London Jesuit Centre.
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