http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall Biography of the infamous Scottish “poet”, William Topaz McGonagall. My parents gave me a book of his poetry – generally considered some of the worst ever written – as a kid, and even then I could distinguish its awfulness. It’s amazing to think that someone so immune to taunts and abuse could have been […]
Tag Archives: Poetry
pick-up lines for feminists – Lesley Kartali – Lodestar Quarterly
http://www.lodestarquarterly.com/work/343/ I’ve been working on a comic strip for freakin’ ever (now an actual measurement of time, I believe) and I really should get going on it soon. Mainly because other people are coming up with terrific things that some of my characters might say, and I’m worried people might think I’ve been secretly plagiarising. […]
The Spelling Society
http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php I’ve Stumbled this poem before, I know, but it’s too much fun not to Stumble again! Best when read out loud, BTW.
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/562.html A delightful A.A. Milne children’s poem that was introduced to me via The Muppet Show (and introduction to opera was via Looney Tunes!) The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: “Could we have some butter for The Royal slice of bread?”
Lost Poets of the Great War
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/ A good starting-point site for investigating the war poetry of WWI. Specifically, this page concentrates on poets who died on “the torn fields of France.”