{"product_id":"funny-ha-ha-funny-peculiar-9781852249618","title":"Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar","description":"This 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":"Neil Astley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42961788239990,"sku":"9781852249618","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_499837eb-2299-4d47-81ce-279ee18181ca.jpg?v=1767856369","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/funny-ha-ha-funny-peculiar-9781852249618","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}