Inspired by Oscar Wilde's remarkable poem, 'The Ballads of Reading Gaol', the new Ballad has been written by young offenders with the help of performance poet John Hegley. John Hegley, the popular ...

John Hegley's Biscuit of Destiny. John Keats met a woman in Ireland, being carried in a kind of mobile kennel. The romantic poet observed that she seemed to be suffering from a scarcity of biscuit.