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- 'World's Worst Poet' Wins Immortality - Reuters news report of moves to honour McGonagall in Dundee, includes brief biographical sketch.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=3&cid=573&u=/nm/20020625/od_nm/poet_dc_1
- Beautiful Monikie - McGonagall poem praising "as bonnie a place as ye could wish to see, and about eleven or twelve miles from bonnie Dundee"
www.monikiescotland.freeserve.co.uk/mcgonnagal.htm
- Burning of the Exeter Theatre - A "fairly long, but delightfully atrocious" example of McGonagall's work, with comments and suggested further reading.
www.lester.smith.net/mcgonagall.htm
- City to Celebrate Life of Poet - Dundee is to celebrate the life of the worlds best worst poet by inscribing part of his most famous work alongside the river made immortal by his pen. Report from Dundee Courier.
www.thecourier.co.uk/febcourierrede/NewsStory.cfm?StoryID=25164&Today=240602
- Famous Scots - William McGonagall - Short biographical article and picture of a recently erected memorial plaque.
scottishculture.about.com/aboutuk/scottishculture/library/blfammcgonagall.htm?terms=mcgonagall
- Glasgow by William McGonagall - McGonagall's poem about the city, with links to modern photographs of the features he describes.
www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Play/glasgow.html
- Great Scotsmen - William McGonagall - Humorous tribute from "the alternative voice of Scotland".
www.firstfoot.co.uk/Great%20Scot/gonagall.htm
- In Search of the World's Worst Writers - Short extracts and critique of McGonagall's works.
www.users.waitrose.com/~nickpage/worst/Mcgonagall/mcgonagall.html
- Majestic McGonagall - Biographical sketch and small selection of poems.
ianthorpe.airtime.co.uk/mcgonagal.htm
- McGonagall - Reproduction of the masthead to one of McGonagall's poetic broadsheets, together with biographical note and a clip from a radio reading of his work.
www.shelligoe.freeserve.co.uk/mcgonagall.htm
- McGonagall 2002 Exhibition - A selection of original McGonagall manuscripts and related documents from the collection of the Dundee library.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/centlib/silverytay
- McGonagall Online - A tribute to the poet and tragedian which includes his autobiography as well as all his published poems.
www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk
- McGonagall's Military Verse - Selection of poems commemorating the military actions of the British Empire - evidently one of McGonagall's favourite subjects.
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~warden/colonial/mac.htm
- McGonagall- World's Worst Poet? - This question is answered by reproducing the text of "The Albion Battleship Calamity".
www.totse.com/en/ego/literary_genius/badpoet.html
- McGonagall: Gone but Unforgettable - A plaque is unveiled at McGonagall's burial site. Report and profile from BBC News.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_466000/466681.stm
- One of God's Clumsy Innocents - Appreciation and biography of the poet, with some sample poems.
www.firstunitarianportland.org/sermons/sermons1996/ClumsyInnocents.htm
- Poetry Parlour - McGonagall's "Brief Autobiography" together with an appreciation and some samples of his works. Part of a larger poetry site.
www.poetry-parlour.fsnet.co.uk/mcg.htm
- Scottish City Honors Bard of some Really Awful Verse - McGonagall is feted by his adopted city of Dundee, 100 years after his death. Story from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-624bard.story?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dfringe
- Scottish Writers on the Internet: William McGonagall - Concise biography and list of published works.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/william_mcgonagall.html
- Scottish Writers: William McGonagall - A photograph of the poet, striking a dramatic pose with his hat and walking stick.
www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/mcgonagall.html
- The McGonagall Lexicon - Large collection of "poetic gems" online, together with a chat room and a selection of links.
www.spda.com/mcgonagall/main.cfm
- The Time I Discovered Myself to be a Poet - Analysis of a passage from McGonagall's autobiography which appears in a UK examination syllabus.
www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=2179
- The Worst Poem of All Time: William Topaz McGonagall's The Tay Bridge Disaster - Text and criticism of the work.
poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm?once=true&
- Tribute to the Best Bad Bard - The city of Dundee plans a unique riverside tribute, report from BBC News.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_2060000/2060054.stm
- William McGonagall - Biographical article from SCRAN multimedia database.
www.scran.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient?_IXDB_=scran&submit-button=SUMMARY&$$=with+usi+is+000-000-000-521-P
- William McGonagall - Poet - Concise article describing McGonagall's life and work from the BBC h2g2 site.
www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A416341
- William McGonagall - Poet and Tragedian of Dundee - Dundee City Council's page on the city's famous bard: "the world's best bad poet". Includes a facsimile of an original McGonagall manuscript.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/centlib/mcgon.htm
- William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society - Dundee-based fan club for the poet and tragedian. Presents a good selection of his poems and links to other sites.
www.dundee22.freeserve.co.uk/default.htm
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