Odd Socks is the first collection of comic verse by John Robert
Brown.
Enjoy a journey around Brown's special world as he considers the arrival
of traffic roundabouts in Japan in 2013, contemplates the uniqueness of
Nuneaton and in literate and carefully-crafted verses, muses on the
correct spelling and pronunciation of 'aitch'. In these pages we also
meet a Blemya, (the mythical man with no head), are invited to consider
the atheist views of academic Dr. Richard Dawkins, whose habit is
wearing the odd socks of the title. We learn also about the 'pullet
surprise' of American jazzman Ornette Coleman, and are introduced to
ingenious anagrams devised by another world-famous musician.
John Robert Brown also shares the delights of enduring an intrusive
medical inspection by way of an endoscope, takes a look in Who's Who,
and considers the experience of reading music at Oxford. Odd Socks is a
welcome addition to that too small community of intelligent and witty
poets.
The book is illustrated by Harry Venning, the creator of The
Guardian's weekly Clare in the Community cartoon. Harry Venning is an
award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and comedy writer. His work has
also appeared in The Mail On Sunday, Sunday Telegraph,
Independent, Sunday Times, The Stage and Radio Times. His Clare
in the Community books are published by Penguin Random House.
