BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: Monster poems, compiled by John Foster: Oxford, pounds 1.50.
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Your support makes all the difference.One of a series of slender, bargain-priced anthologies - see also Twins Poems and Giant Poems. The monsters are jaunty and not remotely scary, and apart from a right-on save-the-whale verse they have a nice amount of cheek. The book even runs to limericks:
A sea-serpent saw a big tanker
Bit a hole in her side and then sank her.
It swallowed the crew
In a minute or two
And then picked its teeth with the anchor
The collection of twins poetry is perhaps more pleasing, since its subject is more oblique and comic. Here, too, twinship emerges as a mixed blessing:
We're hard to pull apart
We stick to each other like glue.
I gave her mumps and measles,
She gave me a dose of her flu.
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