Adam Taylor’s humorous poetry uncovers the fine detail of life, probing peoples’ foibles and poking things which take themselves a bit too seriously. Themes range from Messerschmitts to Messiahs, from mystics to psychics, from evil to evolution, from singles to primitive blobs, from Englishness to Jewishness, from Jewish gangsters to the Mafia, from atonement to tea.

Here you can read some of his poems, watch performance video clips and animations of his poems and read reviews of his poetry book "God’s face in your gazpacho", recently published by Troubador. And indeed buy it.

His poems have been variously described in newspapers and poetry journals as: offbeat, quirky, satirical, pithily crisp, irreverent, striking, sharply satirical, deadpan, excellent humorous poetry. And somebody once said simply: funny poems.

Here's a short poem:

Funny poems

Search engines often ask me: what exactly do you mean by funny poems? Well, I suppose funny poems may be funny in the sense of peculiar. Or funny in the sense of humorous. Be careful though because humorous poems can be difficult to distinguish from humorous poetry which is itself often confused with funny poetry. There’s a kind of symmetry I suppose - funny poems leading to humorous poems bringing us to humorous poetry and finally we complete the circle with funny poetry. Or you could go a different route, say funny poems to funny poetry to humorous poetry and then to humorous poems. (Don’t get me started on humourous poems and humourous poetry...)

One thing I’m never asked is the difference between poems and poetry. But, in case you’re wondering, poems means two or more specific poems whereas poetry means much the same thing except the poems seem to merge into a kind of big blob.

That’s really it. Not perhaps the most clear and concise piece of prose ever written about poetry. But hopefully it gives good density.