Second edition, ISBN 1 871311 13 6
First published in 1986 by Rainbow Publication.
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Pat Ingoldsby (1942) is an Irish poet and TV presenter. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-1990s, he has withdrawn from the mass media and is most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin.
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‘Welcome to my Head. Please Remove Your Boots’ is an hilarious book uniting Pat Ingoldby’s first three collections of poems: 'You've Just Finished Reading This Title' (1977), 'Rhyme Doesn't With Reason' (1981) and 'Up The Leg of Your Jacket' (1985). It is a compilation of zany poetry and wit, black-edged lunacy and verse containing an element of deep compassion and sensitivity which will strike a chord in every true member of homo sapiens – and in a few ducks and spiders too. Most of Ingoldby’s poems are about his personal experiences, observations of life in Dublin, or mildly surreal humorous possibilities. Topics of personal experiences vary from the death of his father, or the electroconvulsive therapy he received (c. 1988), to his appreciation of the natural world or his pets (mostly cats, but also some fish).
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Boekhandel Ampersand is extremely proud to present you this hysterically funny book. And like always: free delivery in the Woerden-Montfoort area (NL). Completely nuts!