The Best Humorous Verse
An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry
The best funny poems written in the English language.
- Allan Ahlberg - Please Mrs Butler
- Adrian Henri - "Without You"
- Adrian Mitchell - "Fifteen Million Plastic Bags"
- Anon - "Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer"
- Charles Causley - "Ballad of the Breadman"
- GK Chesterton - "The Rolling English Road"
- Hal Summers - "My Old Cat"
- Helen Dunmore - Next Door
- Hugo Williams - "Toilet"
- JBS Haldane - "Cancer's a Funny Thing"
- Jenny Joseph - "Warning"
- John Cooper Clarke - "(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space"
- Louis MacNeice - "Bagpipe Music"
- Monty Python - "Horace"
- Ogden Nash - "Common Cold"
- Ogden Nash - "Lines On Facing Forty"
- Ogden Nash - "More About People"
- Ogden Nash - "To My Valentine"
- Philip Larkin - "Annus Mirabilis"
- Philip Larkin - "This Be The Verse"
- Roger McGough - "Comeclose and Sleepnow"
- Roger McGough - "Let Me Die A Youngman's Death"
- Roger McGough - "Vinegar"
- Roger McGough - "At lunchtime"
- Shel Silverstein - "Bear In There"
- Vernon Scannell - "Spot-check at Fifty"
- Wendy Cope - "A Christmas Poem"
- Wendy Cope - "Loss"
- Wendy Cope - "Bloody Men"
- WS Merwin - Seperation