
John Masefield
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Dorma D-a-U-B-E-R
There's a bit though where the main guy he basically runs around the town naked shouting fire in the middle of the night mainly because he's got so utterly drunk. So what mad naked drunk runs through town threatening to it firefighters with their own nozzles. I mean it's not a theme that you often come across in poetry. There's one called Dorma which was written in 1912. It's about a bloke who loves painting and who also goes to see and the sailors don't trust him because of his art interest. And they actually do, he keeps his paintings under, I think, a lifeboat and they find them and they deface them and put glue and water
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