To mark National Poetry Day in the UK, we celebrate a dozen of TVs best worst fictional poets…
The best words in their best order.
Thats how Samuel Taylor Coleridge summed up the task of a poet.
Its Always Sunny In Philadelphias alliances between Dee and Charlie are always excellent value.
Shes ridiculous, hes unfathomable and together, they do awful things.
Revisiting it now, its a wonder she didnt swoon instantly at his feet.
My heart expands/tis grown a bulge int/ inspired by/your beauty effulgent.
He certainly wouldnt approve.
Queenies notBlackadders best worst poet though…
There arent any trees in Africa!/There arent any trees in Africa!
Co-editor of her university poetry magazine Rhombus, Oregon is a particular kind of monster.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly/Thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
I had a cat named Snowball/She died!
She died!/Mom said she was sleeping/She lied!
She lied!/Why oh why is my cat dead?/Couldnt that Chrysler hit me instead?
Poor Snuffy the hamster.
I fly through a puckish arena/where echoes dance/where echoes dance/where echoes dance.
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom… Ezra Pound eat your heart out.
Even famous poets take longer than that.
Skip to 4:30in this video for a look.
Specifically Rik Mayall as The Peoples Poet doing searing environmentalist performance piece Pollution?
Words were your weapon, Rick.
You wielded them powerfully.
This feature was originally posted in October 2016.
