Join us today for a historic revelation. at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Our three-part event begins at 2:00 pm. Newly Discovered Poems by William Topaz McGonagall. This special event begins with a revelation of utterly no importance, but great historical interest: the first modern recital of two more nearly-lost poems by the bad poet William […]
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Improbable TV: ‘Stirling Castle’ with Terry Jones
Here’s a new episode — #McG-001, “Stirling Castle” with Terry Jones — of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the first of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet ever to write in the English language. On March […]
McGonagall poem: Hawthornden
Two nights ago, on March 19, 2011, at the University of Dundee, two overlooked bad poems by William Topaz McGonagall were given their first public reading in over a century, and perhaps ever. [Click here for event details.] The second of those poems, “Hawthornden”, was recited by Professor Chris McManus of University College London. Here […]
McGonagall poem: Stirling Castle
Two nights ago, on March 19, 2011, at the University of Dundee, two overlooked bad poems by William Topaz McGonagall were given their first public reading in over a century, and perhaps ever. [Click here for event details.] The first of those poems, “Sterling Castle: A Descriptive Poem”, was recited by Eddie Small of the […]
Sunday: Tay Bridge poem reading on the Train
Join us on Sunday morning, March 20 for a historic group reading — on a train crossing the Tay Bridge, perhaps the first time this has ever been accomplished — of William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous bad poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, Here are the poem’s stirring opening lines: “Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry […]
Ig Nobel & McGonagall 2nite in Dundee!
Tonight’s the night in Dundee! Three Ig Nobel Prize winners AND a revelation that is of absolutely no importance, but of great and goofy enjoyment to many in the English-speaking world. The revelation: Several poems by the bad poet William Topaz McGonagall — poems that have never been published in any book — will be […]
STV preview of McGonagall poem modern debut
The Scottish TV network STV produced a preview of the historic (and completely unimportant) event that will happen on Saturday evening, March 19 at the University of Dundee: The modern debut of poems by the wretched poet William Topaz McGonagall — poems that are not published in any book and that have not been performed […]
Overlooked McGonagall poems found!
There’s news about the bad poet William Topaz McGonagall. It’s of absolutely no importance, but of great and goofy enjoyment to many in the English-speaking world. Several poems that have never been published in any book will soon be recited in public [on March 19, at our show at the University of Dundee] for the […]
Poem for the Dundee Ig Nobel show
In tribute of a sort to tonight’s Ig Nobel show at the University of Dundee, not far from the Tay Bridge, here are the concluding lines of William McGonagall’s mortal poem “The Tay Bridge Disaster“: Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay, I must now conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly without the […]