Helbert and his mother like doing a lot of things together, but their experiment with a plum stone gets out of hand.

Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist Ivor Cutler (1923?2006) was a singular force in popular culture. His oeuvre encompassed absurd songs and poems, surreal performances, and illustrated publications. These abstract the banal and everyday with warmth, occasional darkness, and quiet radicalism. Self-styled as an?Oblique Musical Philosopher?, Cutler saw himself as having??.the effect of a very mild earthquake, one that nudges people into having a look around themselves, through all the rubbish that passes for convention.? This exhibition pulls from his archive to present original musical scores, lyrics, sketches, artworks, letters, press cuttings, and posters, gathered to celebrate Cutler?s life and work, many of which have never been previously exhibited.00Exhibition: Goldsmith's CCA, London, UK (01.10-04.11.2018).

This is the fourth volume featuring Ivor Cutler's haunting and humorous short stories and Martin Honeysett's eerie and outrageous drawings.

There is something very peculiar about Herbert - he's a boy when he goes to bed at night, but when he wakes in the morning he may be an elephant or chicken or a kangaroo or any other animal he chooses]

Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.

The Diamond family finds temporary shelter in a house built by their friends from the zoo.

Four-year-old Belle Grape, who builds zoos, discovers how to squish air and uses air walls to make a special worm and fly zoo for the village sage.