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Every week since 2006, the award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in The Independent on Sunday by reducing the work of some of the world s best-loved writers to a series of puerile and filthy limericks. Following the success of the first two volumes of The Limerickad (from Gilgamesh to Jane Austen) The Limerickiad volume III lays waste to the literary greats of the nineteenth-century. Rowson mangles Melville, put the boot into the Bront s and defaces the complete works of Dickens. He even finds time to write a limerick in homage to its inventor ( When a runcible fellow called Lear... ).

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Andy Croft’s books include Red Letter Days, A Weapon in the Struggle, The Years of Anger, After the Party, Not Just a Game (with Sue Dymoke) and Red Sky at Night (with Adrian Mitchell). His books of poetry include Ghost Writer, 1948 (with Martin Rowson), A Modern Don Juan (with NS Thompson), Letters to Randall Swingler and The Sailors of Ulm. He edits Smokestack Books.

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