Kf Book Funny Poems CL

Roger McGough. Kingfisher, $18.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7534-5480-0

Originally issued in Great Britain in 1986 under a different title, The Kingfisher Book of Funny Poems, edited by Roger McGough, illus. by Caroline Holden, now appears stateside. The hefty volume contains more than 200 poems, the largest number from McGough himself, and dominated mostly by men, such as Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Douglas Florian and Jack Prelutsky. (Apr.)

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