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World's Worst Poet

May 16, 2008 01:52 PM EDT

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http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080516/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritainpoetryauction

Critics have awarded him the "world's worst" label because of the crashing lack of subtlety in terms of rhyme, imagery, vocabulary or repetition.

His most famous poem is about the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, in which 75 people died:

"So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay,

"Until it was about midway,

"Then the central girders with a crash gave way,

"And down went the train and passengers into the Tay."

You know, I've been reading a lot of submissions recently for our poetry chapbooks. I think it is safe to say the spirit of McGonagall is alive and well.

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Comments: 6

Paul M. May 16, 2008, 1:55pm EDT

Any poetry I ever wrote could surely go on that list as it all starts with something about Nantucket or Venus.

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A. F. Stewart May 16, 2008, 2:31pm EDT

You have my sympathies.

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Peter Joseph Swanson May 16, 2008, 2:52pm EDT

OOOOOO that was fabulously awful !!!!

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sharon SugarMomma is a wise woman, May 16, 2008, 3:07pm EDT

Yep that sucks big time.

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Amy H. May 16, 2008, 4:53pm EDT

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Gregg Rowe May 16, 2008, 6:24pm EDT

We all have our faults and pecularities in writing. Some would probably say the same of mine today, but in allhonesty, I would rather see a poet get paid as much as that Harry Potter author anyday. Poetry is much more stricker and disciplined than novel writing and deserves to rank high on the artists scales also.

Gregg

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