It was a beautiful day so I decided to go for a stroll on the beach and recite this poem by one of my poetry heroes, Dame Edith Sitwell. I hope you like it, and if you don’t, it’s not very long.
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New Year’s Day Whimsy 2025 – Complete Show
Hello, once again this New Year’s Day I took to the airwaves with a 45 minute poetry show. This was a mix of new poems, old poems, borrowed poems, but thankfully, not many blue poems. And this year, I set up another camera next to my IPad so that I could record the whole thing!
So in the back room of the shop where I work, I launched into a very eclectic set of poems which included four ‘cover versions’. The list is as follows:
Humming
Bunger Up of Rat ‘Oles (Jack Warner cover)
Surfer Dude
Smurftown
Are you Cool?
Coffee Shop
Mariner Man (Edith Sitwell cover)
The Aviator
In Love and Aviation (Rose Cook cover)
Show me the World
Gom
Gruts for Tea (Ivor Cutler cover)
Ted Talk
Tomas
Straight Pub
Straight (New version)
Fozzie
Traction Engine
A Train full of Edith Sitwells
Short poem about catching a train in which all the other passengers look like Dame Edith Sitwell. Not based on a true story.
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Robert Garnham 