PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find here, is always inseparable from comic verve. * Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator * Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ... This is a good anthology. * F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post * hugely enjoyable * London Evening Standard * John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic verse. * Literary Review * Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader. * Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard * Review from previous edition the laughter quotient is greatly boosted by many unfamiliar delights * Times Literary Supplement *
