Lyric Aficionado Gifts

It turned out that living wasn't easy with eyes closed after all.

Alanis Morissette

Bob Dylan

'This lot? Word-perfect with every song in the hit parade but can't remember a single line of poetry!'

"Imagine there's no heaven. . ."

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Annie, the Reptile version: 'The sun will come out tomorrow! Tomorrow! You will sun yourself tomorrow!'

Gunter Grass

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Stephen Spender.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

Noel Coward.

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

My Literary Influences

Ironing Punctuation

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Friedrich Schiller

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

Nick Cave

Jim Morrison Goes Camping

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with something missing.

"Nevermore."

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

Library

"This next song I wrote I won't sing due to political correctness."