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Small Dreams Of A Scorpion: Poems

by Spike Milligan · 1972

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Spike Milligan had published volumes of humorous and children's poetry before the 1970s, but Small Dreams of a Scorpion is the first volume to feature some of his most personal and painful musings: partly on his own bouts of clinical depression and hospitalisation; partly about some of his darkest moments as a soldier in World War II; and also about some of the terrible moments of post-war world history and his reactions to them - the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the Aberfan school disaster and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

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humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 89 pages
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