This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in contemporary poetry the peculiar has really come into its own, as this surprising selection shows, with poems on: 1 l The Opposite Sex: Love, desire, romance, sex, men&women, adultery&celibacy. 2 l Matters of Life&Death: Life, growing up, growing old, bums&hips, swearing&shaving, amnesia&the end. 3 l Nowt So Funny as Folk: Shops&wheelbarrows, poets&artists, jobs and jobless, war&oppression. 4 l Peculiar Places: Skunks in America, England&Scotland, curries&selfies, Armageddon&colonic irrigation. 5 l Sounds True: Lies&beliefs, Popes&poodles, ?re alarms, tennis, rain, static, and Country&Western music. 6 l Animal Magic: Goats, sheep, chickens, yaks, cows, bison, horses, herons, chameleons&crustaceans. And people... 7 l Words&Worse: Adages&proverbs, curses&cliches, slang&swearing. Anti-proverbs butter all your parsnips.