Robert Vernon Hignett was a British telecommunications engineer and lifelong poet. His candid, often erotic verses remained unpublished during his lifetime and were discovered after his death. Written over several decades, his poems reveal an emotionally rich inner life that balances wit, tenderness, and sensual imagination.

After discovering his father's extensive handwritten poetry archive, Malcolm Robert Hignett undertook the task of editing, curating, and illustrating this three-volume collection – combining poetic fidelity with contemporary tools to illuminate his father's voice for a new audience.

Across three volumes, Robert's work reveals a lively, thoughtful, and unmistakably individual voice: sometimes tender, sometimes comic, sometimes mischievous, and often quietly moving. His poems capture love, loss, memory, desire, friendship, work, and the small absurdities of everyday life with warmth and wit.

What makes the collection special is its range. Alongside reflective and affectionate poems are limericks, comic verses, character sketches, and playful pieces that show his delight in language, rhyme, and human eccentricity. Together, they reveal a man of intelligence, humour, sensitivity, and resilience – someone who observed life closely and found poetry in both its sorrows and its laughter.