In this lively presentation, 12 poets aim their wit at a wide variety of targets, including political oratory, mishandled metaphors, newspaper headlines and married life.
Works include:
"A Pig's Eye View of Literature" - by Dorothy Parker
Five Poetic Commentaries - by Richard Armour
"Change of Address"
"In the Dark"
"The Discriminating Reader"
"Authentic Auntique"
"I Decry, I Deplore"
"Epitaph of Charles II" - by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
"A Prophecy" - by Philip Freneau
"next to of course god america i" - by e.e. cummings
"Poetmaster Versus Poet" - by Marya Mannes
"Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" - by Jonathan Swift
":They" - by Siegfried Sassoon
"In Westminster Abbey" - by John Betjeman
"Everything's Haggis in Hoboken" - by Ogden Nash
"Very Like a Whale" - by Ogden Nash
"Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II" - by Alexander Pope
"Tarantella" - by Edith Sitwell
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