The Curse of the Vampire's Socks and Other Doggerel

The title poem in this collection of ingenious verses describes how a vengeful dead vampire tortures a town by suspending his putrifying socks in the air above it, until a farmer's wife lifts the curse by converting the socks into mouthwatering cheese. This devoutly coprophilous keynote comes through loudly in two or three other odes to the joys of mucky-mindedness, but there are also episodes of delightfully pure surrealism, an impressive feat of wordplay in 'An Attempt on the World Rhyming Championship Record', and a serious vein of restrained green wrath running through poems like 'The New Mina' and 'Extinction Day'. A thoroughly enjoyable fusion of skilled verbal structuring and anarchic imagination.