Rob Barratt is a Dudley-born and Cornwall-based comic poet, humourist and singer whose brain-tickling, word-mangling performances combineclever wordplay, verse and song with satire, parody and audience participation.

He tackles subjects as diverse as squid, data-driven education, chocolate, Neanderthal politics, Scottish weather, distressed furniture, pissoirs and his relationship with potatoes but beneath the humour lieserious and thought-provoking themes.

In recent years, Rob has appeared at folk, literature and arts festivals and venues across the British Isles and Australia, establishing himself as a distinctive and original voice in comic poetry.

This is not only clever but I think its very funny. Mike Harding

His head is well and truly located in Planet Barratt, clearly a place of wonderfully bizarre inspiration. Coventry Telegraph