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Browse through Spike Milligan's poems and quotes. 51 poems of Spike Milligan. Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, Dreams, Annabel Lee. Early lifeMilligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish. Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish-born father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA, who was serving in the British Indian Army.

Terence Alan Spike Milligan KBE (16 April 1918– 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself Spike after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters. Milligan included it on his album No One’s Gonna Change Our World in 1969, to aid the World Wildlife Fund. In December 2007 it was reported that, according to OFSTED, it is among the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK. While depressed, he wrote serious poetry.

Spike Milligan was a great irish poet, writer and artist who even he was an active musician, he wrote many good famous poems considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as absolutely immortal-greatly in the tradition of Lear. One of his poems, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Below, are listed some of his best popular poems compiled from his complete works book.

1918 - 2002/Male/Irish A comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor, Terence Alan Milligan's poetry was written for children. Popular A-Z. Spike Milligan. Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan. The ABC. 'Twas midnight in the schoolroom And every desk was shut When suddenly from the alphabet Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!"

Spike Milligan reads 62 of his comic poems and nonsense verse, including "Timothy Nerp", "Tiger", "Little Jim", o", "The Twit", "This is a Stickup", "Well Bread", "Lord s", "Fleas" and "Knees". Used availability for Spike Milligan's Spike's Poems.

Spike's illustrated autobiography will delight his many fans. Happily, the Family Album is untrammeled Milligan. The temptation to be sensible is resisted" (Books Magazine). The delightful anthology of Spike Milligan's poems and stories for children comprises his classic children's books Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundrym, Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Nasty Dragon, A Book of Milliganimails, Stratling Verse for All the Family, Silly Verse for Kids and The Bald Twit Lion. Spike did not regard children as small adults, but as entirely different species who lived in a secret, magical world that very few adults understood.

Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school.