The Coalition of the Swilling (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I bet I could give him a run for his money Poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet" are expected to fetch up to £6,500 at auction. Thirty-five of William McGonagall's works - many of them autographed...
Maurizio Morabito (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Ho trovato l'antenato del “poeta cimiteriale” o (”crepuscolare”) Mauro Petrarca (che conosco tramite Melog su Radio24, non dall'inguardabile X-Factor televisivo…) Si chiamava William MacConagall, e’ morto nel 1902 e ha lasciato ai posteri profondi componimenti come questo: Il treno si muoveva lento sul ponte del Tay Finche’ arrivo’ a circa la meta’ Allora le travi centrali si spezzarono E giu’ andarono...
No rules. Just write. (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
"No rules" reader Neal Dench knows I love to cringe over the awful poems of William McGonagall, so he just sent me a link to this BBC news item: A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet". A total of 35 of William McGonagall's works - many of them autographed - have been up for auction in Edinburgh. The ditties by "The Tayside Tragedian" went for...
the GATHERING and elsewhere (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
This caught my eye concerning the man widely regarded as the worst poet...ever... A sample "So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And...
