John Hegley: Letters to an Earwig, Millfield Arts Centre, Silver Street, Edmonton Thursday, March 20, 7pm

Performance poet, comic and musician John Hegley's latest show is loosely based around an alphabet of animals.

"There are different formats for different animals," he says, "dancing, singing, poems jolly and melancholy. It's a coathanger for ideas about people relating to each other and various other daftnesses."

Hegley, 55, who lives in Highbury, worked as a bus conductor and social security clerk before starting his career at the Comedy Store club in Soho and being discovered by radio DJ John Peel.

He says: "I like what I do because each show is different, so it's always exciting. And I suppose you have some sort of faith in what you're doing, and hope you send people away with a spring in their step. And a summer and a winter and an autumn."

Tickets cost £12 and are available from the box office on 020 8807 6680. Suitable for adults and children aged seven and over.