Aardvarks: Earth Pig Poetry

Aardvarks: Earth Pig Poetry (2023)

Gibbon Moon Books

"Poems in which aardvarks feature to a greater or lesser extent. The poetry of Rhys Hughes has been compared to that of Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Ivor Cutler and Richard Brautigan."

There's an aardvark

on my uncle's shoulder

and he's waiting

for my aunt.

He is a type of aunt-eater,

that creature with a long

sticky tongue.

And so is the aardvark.

I wondered if I had written enough poems about aardvarks to issue a book of aardvark-themed poetry. I went through all my poems to see if this was true. Turns out it nearly was (I had to write a few more to make up the shortfall). Anyway, I put the collection together and here it is...