A.F. Harrold

@afharrold.com

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Poet, performer, children's author. The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others. www.afharroldkids.com

Poet in a hat with a dangler out front.
A poet in a brown crumpled hat.
Poet in a green pointy hat.
Poet in a hat that says 'Tracked 24', making the caption ("I feel like I've been followed all day") a bit like a joke.
Poet in a small, but bigger, hat.
A poet wearing a little hat.
Poet wearing a hat and beard.
Poet in hat, with sleeping cat.
Poet in hat.
A poet and his cat, white a white beard and tall hat.
A poet in a Nike, 'Just Do It', hat.
November 2025. Susan eating a biscuit like a t-rex. Vincent standing legs akimbo like a Tory.
A poet wearing a hat made from post and a beard made from beard.
Fishfolk book cover. Blue-green Hokusai-ish wave with added tentacles, threatening a couple of figures by a straggly tree. By Steven Quincey-Jones. Smashing book.
Two melted cats, Vincent and Susan, ignoring one another, in seperate puddles.
Susan, a ginger cat, on a windowsill leaning her cheek on the pointy edge of some books.
Grey cat, Vincent, using a rocking chair as a pillow.
Poet (AF Harrold) with books (Pocket Book of Pocket Poems).
Red book cover. Blue stream/zombie. Title is 'Thirst', written by Darren Simpson.
A fox on a fence.
Vincent, a cat, has his tail under control.
Susan, a ginger cat, sat in a shoebox looking frightfully doleful. No one knows.
Vincent and Susan, two cats, flat on the floor.
Vincent, a grey cat, has two paws on his tail. It is under control. No one knows it so well as he.
Vincent, a beautiful grey cat, is dozing on his rocking chair, with one one paw holding down his tail, as usual.
A beautiful, but stupid, grey cat, sat very neatly on a map on a table set up for gaming, in a shed at the end of the garden where nerdy things happen. (Including, occasionally, some writing.)
Picture of a whole bunch of random postcards with some poems written on them...
Vincent is a grey cat on a rocking chair and all his feet are over there.
Picture of big yellow Trump with little Vance, from Instagram. Chris's comment says: "I was invited to contribute a piece to the Dr Seuss exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book fair. They asked me to take How The Grinch Stole Christmas as inspiration. Like me, Theodore Geisel, aka Dr Seuss exhibition at, was a political cartoonist who famously lampooned the 'American First' movement in World War Two so I decided to lampoon a modern day successor. I thought Dr Seuss would have approved. However today I was informed that my image was too political and the Dr Seuss estate was withdrawing permission for it to be displayed. Theodore would have been outraged..."
Little magnolia tree with pink-white petals that taste of ginger and will fall off in the slightest breeze.
Photo from a book of Big Kitty, a black and white cat, on the toilet.
Grey cat with four feet, three together, one in a different postcode.
School visitor sticker with picture of a poet on it.
Vincent, a grey cat, on a rocking chair, in the sunshine, with too many feet at eldritch angles.
Book page. Dog wrapped in string of sausages, with a poem. (See next picture for poem text.)
A grey cat sleeping on his head. Very curled up like a curling stone, sans handle.
Poem on a book page: Troll Song "It wasn't always my ambition to live under a bridge. There came a point though where a decision had to It was either here or in a swamp or in a cave. be made. On the plus side, there's cold running water all the time. On the minus side, am living under a bridge. There's little privacy and less in the way of respect. It's only a small bridge. My feet stick out when I sleep. I bang my head more than I'd like. I get into arguments with ducks. People look down on me, living under a bridge. But it's a tradition, my mum said, and tradition's tradition. Sometimes I eat the ducks. Those are arguments l've won. On either river bank are pastures. Lush-lands. like the smell in spring of the hundred different flowers. I never mention this when other trolls come to visit. I read a lot of books. They contain other worlds. For a time I can imagine l'm not living under a bridge. You can learn things in books too, important useful things: I eat every goat I see these days, just to be on the safe side."
A ginger cat on the radiator, hating.
Sign in Tesco that says 'Effective relief from yhe UK's #1 zBtands.'
Detail from a page in a book with a framed homily that says 'Don't read books by other authors. Most of them are rubbish and are full of spelling mistaokes.'
Vincent, a grey cat, lying on a chair with his head right up dead close to the radiator.
Bearded man sat at table pondering the book in the post.
Book cover: A Tariq Twins Mystery: Murder for Two, by Niyla Farook. Blue shattered glass backdrop with glimpses of buildings and people. Two 11 year old girls in front, one in stripes with curly hair whispering into the ear of her twin in a green hijab. Looks exciting.
Hole in mud, dug by a pointy thing (bird beak, I assume...).
Visitor pass for the school with the poet in question making a stupid face.
Susan, a ginger cat, on the radiator. Vincent, a grey cat, on a chair, beside thr radiator, bum-warming.
AFH and Phil Tite, schoolteacher extraordinaire, looking excited and slightly anxious beside a vending machine filled with brilliant kids books of all different sorts. Kids fo something noteworthily good in class and they a token to go choose a book of their own to take home and keep for free. Amazing!
A pile of books: The Worlds We Leave Behind was borrowed 1647 times; Fizzlebert Stump the Boy Who Did PR in his Pants, 1088 times; The Imaginary, 944 times; Fizzlebert Stump the Boy Who Ran Away from the Circus and Joined the Library, 918 loans; The Afterwards, 794 loans; Fizzlebert Stump the Boy Who Cried Fish, 677 times; and Greta Zargo and the Death Robots from Outer Space, 617 loans.
A grey cat, Vincent, and a ginger cat, Susan, look out of the frame at a comedian.
Sunrise up the Oxford Road.
Book cover: A.F. Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems, illustrated by Jack Viant.
A crocodile emerging from a bowl of porridge.
Sign seen in Tesco which reads 'Effective relief from the UK's #1 Brands*'.