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English
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William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his poetry was hugely popular around the world - Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever? He didn't discover he was a poet until the comparatively advanced age of 52, when he underwent something of an epiphany.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever? He didn't discover he was a poet until the comparatively advanced age of 52, when he underwent something of an epiphany - but once...
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Language
English
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The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language with rhymes, and rhythms that produced mirth rather than wonder. His masterpiece is The Tay Bridge Disaster. Scottish-born Gregor Fisher, who starred in Love Actually and other film and TV programs, reads the key poems and passages from the biography.
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Publisher
Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...