More Bloody Clerihews Neil Bartlett and as a freelance translator

and as a freelance translator

Olive Senior

ófrom the Introduction by editor Hugh McFadden

To be strange is to be human

The newspaper Ha’aretz has called it ‘A miniature masterpiece that emerged from oblivion’

More Bloody Clerihews Neil Bartlett and as a freelance translatorFollowing their widely ignored 2019 anthology The Call of the Clerihew, George Szirtes and Andy Jackson make another doomed attempt to interest the world in the ridiculous four line biographical poetic form known as the Clerihew. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 1956) when he was a schoolboy, the Clerihew is a childish and pointless anti Panegyric consisting of flat footed, Hudibrastic quatrains designed to lower the tone and cut everyone