Almost a century ago, the poet Hilaire Belloc warned children against lying, eating bits of string and leaving nurses in a crowd. Landale’s Cautionary Tales – comic verse for the 21st century (Canongate, £7.99, published Oct 19) brings Belloc up to date, offering fresh poetic advice to address the sins of the modern child, namely drinking, smoking, swearing, taking drugs, watching too much television and so on.
The author, James Landale, is chief political correspondent for BBC News 24. The book will, he assures Lib Dem Voice, make a great stocking filler.
Gloria Bone was Apt to
Drone
All day upon her Mobile
Phone.
The moment she got out of
Bed
She clamped the thing fast to
Her head
And would put it down only if
Her signal was a tad Skew-Whiff.
So there you go. Gifts for political geeks, brought to you by Lib Dem Voice. You can pre-order here. Or you can criticise Landale’s poetry in the comments box below. But be nice, or we’ll all be in trouble.
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You should have waited for National Poetry Day tomorrow 🙂