He has also performed (poetry) at both a hen party and a death metal gig, and is ok. He’s a former Canterbury Laureate and Poet-in-Residence at Waterloo Station, and currently in-residence at Knole House for the National Trust. Dan’s first collection of poetry is Applied Mathematics, published by Burning Eye Books, and he is one half of producing partnership Varjack & Simpson. “charmingly geeky” (The Scotsman) “His poems were tight and well thought out… clever and creative, consummately performed” (Sabotage)