The Great Poets: William McGonagall

The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language with rhymes and rhythms that produce mirth rather than wonder. His masterpiece is The Tay Bridge Disaster. Scottish-born Gregor Fisher, who starred in Love Actually and other film and TV programmes, reads the key poems and passages from the autobiography - and gets deep into character!
INCLUDED IN The Great Poets - William McGonagall
Tay Bridge Disaster
The Famous Tay Whale
The Burning of the People's Variety Theatre, Aberdeen
An Escursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay
The Wreck of the Steamer London while on her way to Australia
Loch Ness
A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay
The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
A Tribute to Mr J Graham Henderson, The World's Fair Judge
The City of Perth
The Royal Review: August 25 1881
An Ode to the Queen on Her Jubilee Year
Beecham's Pills
The Faithfull Dog Fido
The Albion Battleship Calamity
From Reminiscences
From A Brief Autobiography
From A Brief Autobiography 2
From A Brief Autobiography 3