King

About King

Set in the 1940's, the novel begins with a harassed Prime Minister suddenly saddled with the task of choosing a new Poet Laureate (hence the "King's Canary"). The Prime Minister is a typically unimaginative and hidebound member of the English gentry - but the modern poetry he is suddenly required to read looks even more foolish than he does. Author by author, school by school, Thomas and Davenport send up the contemporary poets.