The Parrot and Other Poems Raven Kennedy Viewed through his cool

Viewed through his cool

in that extraordinary clash of civilizations known in the West as the Crusades

Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge

a nervous group of goldsmiths from London

The Parrot and Other Poems Raven Kennedy Viewed through his coolAs Wodehouse himself wrote, 'Most poets are more to be pitied than censured. What happens is that they are lured on to the downward path by the fatal fascination of the limerick form. It is so terribly easy to compose the first two lines of a limerick, and, that done, the subject finds it impossible to stop. (Compare the case of the tiger cub, which, at first satisfied with a bowl of milk, goes in stritly for blood after taking its initial coolie).