On back cover: "My little owl's the look-alike/Of Goethe the German poet. He's stuck up. He must know it. He's always borrowing my bike."

On back cover: "X.J. Kennedy's poem is just one of the delectably ridiculous contributions to the Stuff and Nonsense section of this rib-tickling collection. There are over seventy poems by all kinds of poets - Russell, Hoban, William Cole, Roy Fuller and Stevie Smith - who've written about all kinds of things from supermarkets and cinnamon buns, to jigsaw puzzles and snowflake soufflés!"