This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous
poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange,
surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always
been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in
contemporary poetry the peculiar has really come into its own, as this
surprising selection shows, with poems on: 1 l The Opposite Sex: Love,
desire, romance, sex, men & women, adultery & celibacy. 2 l Matters of
Life & Death: Life, growing up, growing old, bums & hips, swearing &
shaving, amnesia & the end. 3 l Nowt So Funny as Folk: Shops &
wheelbarrows, poets & artists, jobs and jobless, war & oppression. 4 l
Peculiar Places: Skunks in America, England & Scotland, curries &
selfies, Armageddon & colonic irrigation. 5 l Sounds True: Lies &
beliefs, Popes & poodles, ?re alarms, tennis, rain, static, and
Country & Western music. 6 l Animal Magic: Goats, sheep, chickens,
yaks, cows, bison, horses, herons, chameleons & crustaceans. And
people... 7 l Words & Worse: Adages & proverbs, curses & clichés,
slang & swearing. Anti-proverbs butter all your parsnips.
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ISBN
9781780372693
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloodaxe Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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