Long John Best

Tall Tales (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dear Sir,

We wish to stop at your hotel, we will book in for a week,

If you can only grant me, the permission that I seek

To allow my dog to stay with me, each evening, in my room.

Though I realise I'm biased, he is well behaved and groomed.

He's the only family I have left, we're sad if we're alone.

We have planned to leave the thirteenth, can you let me know by phone?

He rang back, and said,

"Mate, I've run pubs for many years, and I cannot recall

One dog stealing sheets or towels or pictures off the wall.

And I've never had to bounce one in the middle of the night,

For being drunk, disorderly and bunging on a fight.

And mate, no dog ever bolted with his hotel bill still due,

So if your furry friend'll vouch for you, why you'll be welcome too."

Larrikin Australian bush/cowboy poet Long John Best is a national champion in his field. Tall Tales is a retrospective of his comic poems with a serious edge and versa visa, serious poems with comic tinges. Included are new works. The old and the new gallop along with breezy rhythms, leaving mirth and nuggets of wisdom in their wake.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bent Banana Books
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648687924
• Artikelnr.: 59804179

Autorenporträt

Long John Best is a premier Australian bush/ cowboy poet. Born in Kent England, he migrated to Australia as a child. He was educated at Wilston State School, Brisbane Grammar, and the Air Force School of Technical Training in Wagga Wagga. Best served 15 years Armament Fitter in the RAAF discharged 1969. After service, he had various Jobs and retired in 1998 from Queensland Transport Department. Best married to Glenys in 1966 and they have two daughters, Samantha and Kylie. Best worked with People with a Disability and wrote What's Fair? He toured in Cabaret Erratica at Melbourne Fringe Festival, Canberra Arts Festival and NIDA for World Congress on Disability. Best Joined North Pine Bush Poets Group and won Waltzing Matilda Competition at Winton in 2003 and went to National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Elko Nevada, the same year.