Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Said, ‘I recently
Had nothing to do,
So I invented the clerihew.’

Copyright: from The Land of the Flibbertigibbets (Salt, 2011), © John Foster 2011, used by permission of the author

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You will hear that John reads with quite a serious tone, even for the humorous poems – which perhaps adds to the amusement.

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