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Well, I think he is. I heard him giving a reading of his poems on radio four a year or so ago, and he nearly made me wet my knickers. Which in my family is high praise indeed. (Note the 'nearly'; we never want it to progress any further.) His poems are generally short - some only a line or two. Some are longer, but these tend to creep into a more prose-poetry school of thought. They are glimpses at life from the 'everyman'; comical, satirical and, with that ever-at-the-ready darker side of British comedy, they are fundamentally moving. But he doesn't make a fuss; he tells life exactly as he has just seen it on the bus, or in the supermarket, or walking his dog in the park. 'The Family Pack' (a compilation of three of his shorter books) and 'Dog' are my two favourites. I'm yet to try out 'My Dog is a Carrot' but with a title like that it'd be hard to go wrong! Brilliant.
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