officially issued on CD. In 2004 Newell released an album of light jazz songs, The Light Programme. The album was not particularly successful commercially but his next album A Summer Tamarind returned to his usual style and was much more warmly received. In late 2005 the British singer Richard Shelton released a jazz vocal album called Top Cat with five Newell compositions. Newell's songs have also been recorded by Miki Huber, The Jennifers, Kerry Getz, R. Stevie Moore and Alphaville. In 2011 MGMT covered a Cleaners From Venus song on their We Hear of Love, of Youth, and of Disillusionment EP. Since 2010, Newell has returned to making lo-fi, self-released music under the name Cleaners from Venus. Filmography Newell is the subject of Graham Bendel's 2019 documentary Upstairs Planet: Cleaners from Venus & the Universe of Martin Newell, the 2022 documentary The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story and the 2022 animated documentary short A Man for Our Time. Literary career Newell is better known to some as a poet and author; he has released several volumes of poetry (often in collaboration with the illustrator James Dodds) and a memoir, This Little Ziggy, about his youth and his days in Plod. In 2007 he released a volume of reminiscences, anecdotes and historical information about his beloved Wivenhoe. He is also a weekly contributor of poetry to The Sunday Express, He now writes a weekly column for the East Anglian Daily Times (for which he won columnist of the year in the EDF/ East of England Media Awards in January 2010), performs annually at the Essex Book Festival and occasionally issues spoken word recordings of his poems. Personal life Newell has dyspraxia and Asperger syndrome. Discography Writing Books I Hank Marvinned... ("Martin Newell, c/o The Essex Festival, Department of Literature, University of Essex"; no publisher stated, 1991. no ISBN.) 16-page booklet of poems. . Under Milk Float. Colchester: The Greyhound Press, 1992. Illustrated by Barry Woodcock. . 60-page book of poems The Illegible Bachelor. Colchester: Festival Books, 1996. . Poems Poetic Licence: The Best of 1990–1996. Ipswich: Jardine Press, 1996. . Poems Wild Man of Wivenhoe. [Wivenhoe:] Jardine Press, 1996. Illustrated by James Dodds. Long poem New Top Poetry. Off Licence Books, 1999. . Poems Black Shuck: The Ghost Dog of Eastern England. Hadleigh: Jardine Press, 1999. Illustrated by James Dodds. . Long poem Late Autumn Sunlight: East Anglian Verses. [Wivenhoe:]