Overview
While gazing into a highly polished tablespoon one day, Jonathan Humble, a respected engineer, teacher, lettuce picker and intensely normal member of society, disappeared. Three days later, with a new best friend called Brian, he re-emerged with the germ of an idea: a jet pack device for moving cows from field to field, thereby solving at a stroke the problems encountered by many a motorist on country lanes. On discovering that most people in agriculture, the tripe industry and the cutting edge of aerospace development in the UK thought such a concept "ridiculous," he decided to educate and inform the sceptical through the medium of poetry. In addition to his revolutionary thoughts about bovine transportation, he also explored certain metaphysical concepts associated with ostensibly inanimate objects such as fruit, socks, handkerchiefs and toasters as well as other stuff like politicians, Daleks, mythical beasts and supernatural entities. The result of his musings - My Camel's Name Is Brian - is now available for the amusement of readers the world over, whilst his friends continue to be just a little bit worried about him. Over 100 poems from the biro of the Tripe Poet Laureate! Critical praise for Brian: "Some of this work is tripe and some of this work is not tripe, but even the work that is not tripe is tripe of the highest order of tripe" Ian McMillan (Beat Poet) "Humble should display no false modesty" Mark Burgess (Author and Illustrator) "wide ranging, inconspicuously thought-provoking and undoubtedly very funny" Helen Perkins (North-West Evening Mail) Jonathan Humble was appointed Tripe Poet Laureate by the UK Tripe Marketing Board in 2014.
- | Author: Jonathan Humble
- | Publisher: Tmb Books
- | Publication Date: Feb 05, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 106 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0957314167
- | ISBN-13: 9780957314160
