Robin Ince publishes poetry collection
Robin Ince has written his debut volume of poetry.
Ice Cream For A Broken Tooth will be published on 14th July by Flapjack Press, which has previously published verse by Nigel Planer and Alistair McGowan, and takes its title from a photograph of the comic, aged three, sat, slurping an ice cream cone in the hope it would help him forget about smashing his front tooth on a stone step.
The book also shares its title with one of four shows that Ince is taking to the Edinburgh Fringe this August, with the hour at Stand 2 mixing "poetry and happy stories about the things that have made life delightful, from Doctor Who and horror movies, to the camaraderie of protest marches and and his love of dishevelled cemeteries".
Ince, who has just published his sixth book, Normally Weird And Weirdly Normal: My Adventures In Neurodiversity, about his recent ADHD diagnosis, told the Afternoons show on BBC Radio Scotland that "what's happened is I think that box where my anxiety was kept, now I don't have that anxiety and all of those depressive thoughts and those things, I think that now that gives me the freedom to, suddenly I see something and I think 'oh, I'm going to write some poetry about that'.
"I'll see suddenly see a dandelion or I'll see something growing out of a wall or I'll see a cloud, whatever it might be, or I'll overhear a conversation, I'll think 'oh, I've got a poem' and it arrives almost fully formed. And then 12 lines, 'oh, that's done, brilliant, I can be excited by something else'."
In addition to the Ice Cream For A Broken Tooth live show, Ince will also be performing "a jaunty saunter through the universe and the possibilities that our minds open up" in The Universe And The Neurodiverse at Gilded Balloon At The Museum at the Edinburgh Fringe; speaking with Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson in Conversations With The Godless at the Stand; as well as hosting screenings of classic films from The Comic Strip Presents... series and interviewing guests including Peter Richardson and Alexei Sayle at Just The Tonic's Atomic Room At Just The Tonic Nucleus.
Robin Ince - Ice Cream For A Broken Tooth
A collection of poetry from comedian Robin Ince.
First published: Monday 14th July 2025
- Pages: 114
- Catalogue: 9781068605284
BCG may earn commission on sales generated through the links above.