Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Stalled Chaucer

One of the geniuses (Roland White) at The Sunday Times, who was partly responsible for the burgeoning George & Lynne cult, now draws this to my attention. James McIntyre, the Chaucer of Cheese, is plainly Canada's McGonagall. The web site unkindly calls him Canada's worst poet - quite a claim. I was going to bring you a fragment of one of his cheese odes, but the web site has stalled.
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 6:28 am

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  2. RecusantJuly 16, 2009 8:48 am

    Bloody hell!

    He makes McGonagall read like Dylan Thomas. I particularly admired his 'Ode to a Mammoth Cheese':

    "All gaily dressed soon you'll go
    To the great Provincial show,
    To be admired by many a beau
    In the city of Toronto."

    Astounding.

    Now how is this for a headline on the BBC News site?

    'Fiji freemasons held for sorcery'

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8153159.stm

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  3. BritJuly 16, 2009 8:58 am

    Ah yes, the world's finest cheese poet. McGonagall is the king, but the holy trinity of great bad poets is completed by Julia A Moore.

    The great Chicago Fire, friends,
    Will never be forgot;
    In the history of Chicago
    It will remain a darken spot.
    It was a dreadful horrid sight
    To see that City in flames;
    But no human aid could save it,
    For all skill was tried in vain.

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  4. Grayson EllisJuly 16, 2009 9:39 am

    It’s easy to mock the lack of sophistication of poets of an earlier age but cheese, being a dairy product, is one of the most seductive foods. I remember penning these lines in North Africa, when my then partner introduced me to a Libyan blue.

    We lay there, my love and I,
    Caressed by the summer’s breeze,
    Our skins moist, his troubled thigh
    Mottled by moles of cheese.

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