William McGonagall: A Selection

This slim volume offers a representative cross-section of McGonagall’s works, with extensive notes by editor Colin S.K. Walker.

• A Requisition To The Queen
• The Royal Review
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen
• The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
• The Death of the Queen
• The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• An Address to the New Tay Bridge
• A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay
• The Famous Tay Whale
• Beautiful Edinburgh
• Descriptive Jottings of London
• Jottings of New York
• Glasgow
• Bonnie Dundee in 1878
• The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
• The Burial of the Reverend George Gilfillan
• The Burial of Mr Gladstone
• The Death of Prince Leopold
• The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie
• Grace Darling or The Wreck of the “Forfarshire”
• The Wreck Of The Steamer “London”, While on her way to Australia
• The Wreck of the Whaler “Oscar”
• The Clepington Catastrophe
• The Burning of the People’s Variety Theatre, Aberdeen
• A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army
• The Destroying Angel, or The Poet’s Dream
• The Demon Drink
• A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed Parents, who were Sober Living & God Fearing People
• The Rattling Boy from Dublin
• The Battle of Bannockburn
• The Battle of Culloden
• The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
• The Battle of El-Teb
• The Battle of Omdurman