Innumerable readers have begged me to provide a fuller introduction to the poetry of E.J. Thribb, whom I mentioned yesterday en passant. I am glad to oblige, in the interest of strengthening Anglo-American cultural bonds.

Here is one of Thribb’s best-known productions, praised by no less discerning a reader than Her Majesty the Queen, and set to music by Sir Benjamin Britten, though I have not been able to locate a sound clip.

In Memoriam Kenneth Wood, Inventor of the Reversible Toaster
by E.J. Thribb
So. Farewell then
Ken Wood.
Inventor of the
Reversible
Toaster.
Reversible the of
Inventor
Wood Ken.
Then farewell So.