What a charming collection of poems this is. From animals to cricket and all sorts in between, I chuckled and chortled my way through. George K. Mathew certainly has an eye for the absurd and a pithy turn of phrase. A gift for young and old.Sarah Bourne, author of Never Laugh at Shadows and Two Lives George K. Mathews gently amusing verses breathe the spirit of his characterwitty, warm and generous. They are a reflection too of the warm-hearted and carefree ethos of the college he taught inthe Madras Christian Collegein a more liberal era. Shunning high seriousness, existentialist angst, and political correctness like the plague, these poems reflect collegiate humour of the time: laddish, sporting, lascivious. Not all is slapstick though. The sly humour often reveals a surprisingly sharp edge as we find in the spiders rebuke to humankind: When I suck a mosquito thats fed off your skin,/Were bonded by blood ties that make us near kin:/Save that, there is little that both of us share:/I am good to our fair Earth, you plunder it bare. Not taking mankind too seriously, George K. Mathews poems pleasingly suggest his genial attitude to human folly in all its ludicrous and laughable shapes.Dr Daniel Roberts, Queens University Belfast

About the Author

George K. Mathew (1930-2011) was born in Kuala Lumpur in what was then called Malaya. He joined Madras Christian College in 1950, first as a student, and went on to become a Professor of Englishwhose classes were much loved for his wit, oration and playful renditions of Shakespearean songs and sonnets. His contribution to the College also extended to his roles as editor of the MCC Magazine and director of many of the College plays. He is the author of the novel, The Wind and the Rain. George K. Mathew lives on through his wife, Susan George, and his two sons, Vivek and Sunil. The family can be contacted at nonsenseverse2019@gmail.com.

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