Friday, May 16, 2008

World's Worst Poet Sells Well

From Charlie McDanger comes the paradoxical news that "the world's worst poet" is increasingly popular.
William McGonagall was mocked by literary critics and had food thrown at him during public readings, before dying penniless in an unmarked grave in Edinburgh in 1902.
But an old edition of his poems is expected to raise a hefty sum at auction.

Now he's the toast of society,
due to his notoriety.

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