Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar

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,...