Sunday 2 July 2023

Lovecraft's Chin

Lovecraft's Chin (2023)

slim volume of humorous poems about the man himself, focussing mainly on his chin and his pantheon. If Edward Lear and Ogden Nash had met Cthulhu (and lived to tell the tale) they might have written about the encounter in a way not too dissimilar to this.

ON A RAFT

Lovecraft on a raft,
a sight
to make you shudder.
He lacks
the strength to pull the oars
but his chin
makes an excellent rudder.

Poems also about Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, M.R. James and others.