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Tim Key's poems become claymations

Three verses brought to life by animator William Child

Animator William Child has set three of Tim Key’s poems to claymation.

The verses Cuppa, Clacker and Nuisance have all been animated, with the comic voicing his own work.

A likeness of Key also features in two of the stop-motion shorts – including an image of himself clutching his Edinburgh Comedy Award in a framed photograph in his grandmother’s home.

They all come from Key’s new book of poetry, Chapters, due to be published by Utter & Press on Sunday.

Speaking to the website It’s Nice That, Child said: ‘Tim’s poems are so rich in absurd, hilarious imagery that it just felt like a really good match to visualise them in my lo-fi, slightly surreal style.

’For me, a big part of the beauty of his work is that the scenarios he creates often have a basis in real life, before rapidly becoming bizarre and quite unhinged.’

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Published: 3 Nov 2023