Improbable Research Collection #McG-003: "The Tay Bridge Disaster" group reading at Central Square
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William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet ever to write in the English language. "The Tay Bridge Disaster" is his most famous bad poem. This is a group performance at the Central Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, as part of the 2011 Cambridge Science Festival. The readers are: Dafydd ap Rees, Debra Wise, Robin Abrahams, David Kessler, Ig Nobel Prize winner Patricia Priest, Daniel Rosenberg and Roberta Gilbert.
Related links:
"The Tay Bridge Disaster" (the poem): http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgdisaster.htm
McGonagall: http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/
Dafydd ap Rees: http://www.netheatregeek.com/tag/dafydd-ap-rees/
Debra Wise: http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/bios_detail.jsp?id=42400082
Robin Abrahams: http://robinabrahams.com/about-robin-abrahams/
David Kessler: http://www.ouphrontis.com/
Patricia Priest: http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/122-1298/3683/
Daniel Rosenberg: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/waves-and-the-waggle-dance/
Roberta Gilbert: http://improbable.com/ig/2010/ignitaries/index.html#opera
Central Square Theater: http://www.centralsquaretheater.org
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