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    Vox Pop
    Vox Pop
    Vox Pop
    Ebook33 pages14 minutes

    Vox Pop

    By Kate Fox

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    Selection of BBC Radio 4 regular Kate Fox's most requested comic poems. As heard on Saturday Live, BBC1, BBC2 and stages all over the U.K including Glastonbury Festival where she's website Poet in Residence, 2013.. Funny, daft, thought provoking and satirical. A sampler pamphlet of thirty pages of funny poems from one of the UK's top performance poets who has been compared to Victoria Wood, John Hegley and Pam Ayres. From Small Girlfriends to Not Looking Like a Runner and the Confessions of a Psychiatrist- a whirlwind tour of modern life in verse.

    "Funny and endearing"-Sunday Telegraph.

    "Laugh out loud funny"
    Poetry News

    "Funny, quirky and a wonderful writer"
    Sarah Millican.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKate Fox
    Release dateMay 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301895953
    Vox Pop
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    Kate Fox

    Kate Fox is a stand-up poet, spoken word artist and broadcaster. She’s a regular contributor to Radio 3’s The Verb, has made two comedy series for Radio 4, been Poet in Residence for the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run and completed a PhD in stand-up comedy at the University of Leeds. Her books include Fox Populi, Chronotopia, The Oscillations and Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: True Stories of the North of England’s Women.

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      Vox Pop - Kate Fox

      The Psychiatrist’s Confession

      Need to go to Greggs more than once a week?

      you may be Piecotic.

      Washing your car give you all the joy you seek?

      you're probably Auto Erotic.

      I'm here to give you a label

      give you a diagnosis

      putting you in a psychological category

      that’s just my little neurosis.

      Someone who analyses fires

      is a Pyrobrainiac,

      a person who loves records more than cuddles;

      a Decks maniac.

      Like Hardy not Laurel?

      Stanorexic

      a hater of quiche?

      Flanorexic.

      Someone who has difficulty

      deciding which side of the cheek

      to present during social greetings?

      Kisslexic.

      Have urges to tread in drying concrete?

      Cementia.

      Get annoyed if climbing vines aren't neat?

      Wisteria.

      Believe you need to get another dog

      to stop your first one feeling down?

      You're suffering Twopets Syndrome.

      Glad never to leave one particular Cheshire town?

      that's Stockport

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