{"product_id":"funny-ha-ha-funny-peculiar-a-book-of-strange-comic-poems-9781852249618","title":"Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: a book of strange \u0026 comic poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in contemporary poetry the peculiar has really come into its own, as this surprising selection shows, with poems on: 1 l The Opposite Sex: Love, desire, romance, sex, men \u0026amp; women, adultery \u0026amp; celibacy. 2 l Matters of Life \u0026amp; Death: Life, growing up, growing old, bums \u0026amp; hips, swearing \u0026amp; shaving, amnesia \u0026amp; the end. 3 l Nowt So Funny as Folk: Shops \u0026amp; wheelbarrows, poets \u0026amp; artists, jobs and jobless, war \u0026amp; oppression. 4 l Peculiar Places: Skunks in America, England \u0026amp; Scotland, curries \u0026amp; selfies, Armageddon \u0026amp; colonic irrigation. 5 l Sounds True: Lies \u0026amp; beliefs, Popes \u0026amp; poodles, fire alarms, tennis, rain, static, and Country \u0026amp; Western music. 6 l Animal Magic: Goats, sheep, chickens, yaks, cows, bison, horses, herons, chameleons \u0026amp; crustaceans. And people... 7 l Words \u0026amp; Worse: Adages \u0026amp; proverbs, curses \u0026amp; clichés, slang \u0026amp; swearing. Anti-proverbs butter all your parsnips.","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191412711767,"sku":"9781852249618","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/funny-ha-ha-funny-peculiar-a-book-of-strange-comic-poems-9781852249618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}