Ogden Nash was one of the most popular poets in the English-speaking world at one time, but this is the first full-length biography. Apart from a rather odd encounter with Ezra Pound, his world hardly impinged on that inhabited by the poets from Eliot to Lowell whose work formed the critically approved canon in his lifetime. The difference can be seen from the index to Douglas M Parker’s book, which includes such figures unfamiliar to literature as Bette Davis, Jeanette MacDonald and the wonderfully named Mortimer Snerd.

Nov 2005

Miles from Nowhere

Dad Land

Southern Man

Guernsey’s Finest

When the Circus Came to Town

Septentrional Wizadry

Music to Make You Smile

Going out of Print

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Words, Words, Words

Our Man In London

Coastal Calamity

The Cretan Paradox

Europeans For Sale

The Road To Hell

War Story

Books And The Night

Summer In A Jar

The Ragman’s Trumpet

When the Levee Breaks

Red Gold

Why Are You Telling Me This?

Ad Astra

Navigating the Past

The Queen’s Missing Head

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