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Books
• The Best Of Boggart Blog (vol 1)

• Dimensions of Mystery

• A Two Faced Poet

• Millennium Dawn (anthology)

• A Stroke of Luck


Short Stories
• Psycho Benefit Fraud

• The Vegetarian Shoemaker Of Barking

• Garry Trotter and the Portal of Pleasure #7

• Garry Trotter and the Portal of Pleasure #3 (Adult Humour)

• The King of the Ribble Delta Blues Singers (humour)

• A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 19

• A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 18

• A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 17

• A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 16

• A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 15


Articles
• Shocking Revelation: michael Jackson and barack Obama The Same Person

• A Career In Substance Abuse? Sounds Just The Job For Me.

• G20: World Leaders Kick Off A Witch Hunt

• Girls Alone (News From The Girls School

• Italian Vampire's Grave Discovered

• Stone Throwing Chimp Shocks Scientists

• Women In Labout (not pregnancy but political satire)

• V2G: Technology You Can't Believe In.

• Scientists Have Doubts About Doomsday Machine

• The flame still Burns Tribute to Robert Burns)


Poetry
• Doctor, Doctor

• Jack (a horrible Halloween poem)

• Kiss and Sell

• Where Did All The Money Go

• Ode to Politicians

• The New Poet Laureate

• From The Darkness : Vernal Equinox

• Danny Boyle: A Song For Oscar

• Graduation Blues

• Brown Bread

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News
• Poetry Life and Times Interviews Janet Caldwell

• Ian Thorpe on Christian Radio. Unbelieveable

• Season's Greetings

• July Poetry Life and Times

• Poetry Life and Times

• Ian's Audio online at last (specially for halloween)

• Multi - Media and poetry - the future

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Tribute To A Prodigious Liver (Keith Floyd)
by Ian R Thorpe
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Britains first celebrity chef and most prodigious drinker died yesterday. Here is a tribute in verse


Keith Floyd
enjoyed
the finest things in life.
Let’s not pretend,
in the end
his lifestyle gave him grief.

Keith Floyd
employed
his drinking arm too freely,
his cooking skills
and frequent spills
entertained the corpus vile

Keith Floyd
destroyed
his business and his family
but though the booze
became bad news
he died still drinking gamely

Always broke,
but what a bloke.
What tribute to deliver?
Instead of praise
we should raise
a statue of his liver


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Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 9/16/2009
what a tragic story-well written poem though


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