Imprint: Penguin
Published: 16/03/2017
ISBN: 9780718188030
Length: 64 Pages
Dimensions: 161mm x 4mm x 111mm
Weight: 47g
RRP: £3.99
'It's really, really, really funny' David Walliams
Mole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author's 50TH birthday.
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'Edgy politics, tortured eroticism, misunderstood intellect, changing Britain - a whiff of the sublime. Mole's contribution is significant' Daily Telegraph
Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries 'authored' by one Sue Townsend, this slim volume features more than thirty pieces of Adrian's unique art.
From his timeless first documented poem - The Tap - via classic odes to his muse, first and only true love Pandora (I adore ya), we follow Adrian's life in verse form. We not only witness his burgeoning political anger in works like Mrs Thatcher (Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?) but also see in later poems his merciless examination of the hollow shell of masculinity as well as documenting his declining libido in tragic pieces like To My Organ.
For the first time in a single volume, these are the collected poems of misunderstood intellectual and tortured poet Adrian Mole.
'I ruthlessly exploited Adrian. But he can't afford to sue me' Sue Townsend
'Wonderfully funny and sharp as knives' Sunday Times
'One of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror
'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 16/03/2017
ISBN: 9780718188030
Length: 64 Pages
Dimensions: 161mm x 4mm x 111mm
Weight: 47g
RRP: £3.99
Mole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author's 50TH birthday.
Edgy politics, tortured eroticism, misunderstood intellect, changing Britain - a whiff of the sublime. Mole's contribution is significant
People will want to read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole forever. The reason is simple: it's really, really, really funny
The funniest person in the world
One of the great comic creations
The publishers could offer a money back guarantee if you don't laugh and be sure they wouldn't have to write a single check
Adrian Mole is one of literature's great underachievers; his tragedy is that he knows it and the sadness of this undercuts the humour and makes us laugh not until, but while, it hurts