John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with many best-selling volumes of poetry to his name.

In The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet, Hegley regales us with tales about a Frenchman with some unusual (but clean) habits, which include burying his dog's kennel and his own luggage pieces.

The stories appear alongside other new works, which include an address to aliens on the subject of transport, a poem about a non-talking parrot, and some animal impersonations with the aid of a handkerchief.