Songs Gone Wrong

Songs Gone Wrong (2026)
Mission Creep Press

Songs Gone Wrong is Rhys Hughes's gleefully unhinged collection of comic verse, built from the wreckage of songs half-remembered, misheard, and gloriously misappropriated. Music Hall collides with Nietzsche. Chris de Burgh is damned to a very specific corner of the afterlife. Robert Frost's snowy woods get a talking snowman. Along the way there are philosophical nipples, seafaring skeletons, tropical islands of questionable geography, invading Vikings, and more gorillas than any collection has a right to contain.

Ranging from poems written in the 1990s to verse composed in the past few weeks, these pieces are less concerned with conventional wit than with absurdly offbeat delight, and nearly every one of them is written to be read aloud, at a festival, in a pub, or wherever the nearest willing (or unwilling) audience can be found.

Rhys Hughes is a Welsh writer known for work that sits between speculative fiction and literary experimentation, celebrated for its imaginative scope, wordplay and sense of the absurd. Songs Gone Wrong is his third book from Mission Creep Press, a poetry collection for anyone who has ever mangled a lyric and wondered if the mangled version was better