Empathy has been replaced by privilege, competence by ego. What do we have after the last 14 years? Food banks, child poverty, waiting lists, low living standards, homelessness, Brexit. Vote as if your life depends on it.

In spite of the best efforts of GWR, made it back from Surrey to Devon to vote.

A blog post for pen nerds. Kaweco Germany professorofwhimsy.com/2024/07/07/the…

Been on the road this last month to (deep breath) Cheltenham, Padstow, Guildford (twice) and Morecambe. Things will be quieter from now on, but if anyone wants a whimsical poet at their event, give me a yell!

A blog about a very pretentious novel I wrote when I was in my early twenties professorofwhimsy.com/2024/07/17/syn…

Coming soon! #poetry

Well that ought to stop them.

Thanks Flight of the Dragonfly - Spoken Word, e-Journal for publishing my short story! Robert Garnham flightofthedragonfly.com/robert-garnham/

Poem performed live this week in Torquay about my mother, and a character from an American TV show in the 1950s, Kookie. #poetry #TV professorofwhimsy.com/2024/08/09/koo…

It’s been quite a good week writeoutloud.net/public/blogent… WinningWriters.com

Please enjoy "Torquay, 2 - The Other Team, 2" by Robert Garnham, winner of our 2024 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. winningwriters.com/past-winning-e… Robert Garnham. Writer, humorist, performance poet

Eggplant Emoji Fourgasm: Director’s Uncut features 13 hilarious authors: Unstoppable Buffalo, John DiFelice, Allison Fradkin, Robert Garnham. Writer, humorist, performance poet, Alexandra Lacouture, E.P. Lande, Casey Lawrence, Steve Loiaconi, James P.W. Martin, Jack McBiggs, Max Rauhman, Jake Stein, and alizavig.

A song about identity and fitting in professorofwhimsy.com/2024/08/23/smu…

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Here’s the show I did in Torquay the other week professorofwhimsy.com/2024/09/03/an-… #poetry #comedy

Eggplant Emoji Fourgasm is out now! Robert’s short stories have been published widely in magazines such as Stand, Defenestration, Flash Fiction Magazine, Ink Sweat and Tears and others, and his poetry in Acumen, Tribe and the Broadsheet. professorofwhimsy.com Robert Garnham. Writer, humorist, performance poet

Here’s a poem I performed in Penzance earlier this month about my phobia of sofas. It’s true. It’s nice that I can laugh about these things. professorofwhimsy.com/2025/07/23/sof…

A short story professorofwhimsy.com/2025/08/09/int…

New poem! professorofwhimsy.com/2025/08/11/new… #poetry #glamping

One of the poems I performed last night in Edinburgh professorofwhimsy.com/2025/08/14/i-w…