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 […]
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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 […]