Small bomb at Dimperley Travel & holiday guides in the title poem

in the title poem

a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer

which includes expert notes on everything in the deck

Author(s): Sopel

Telegraph cartoonist Matt and Reg

Small bomb at Dimperley Travel & holiday guides in the title poemIt's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But 'home' is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half full of fly blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And worst of all following the death of his heroic older brother Valentine is now Sir Valentine, and is responsible for the whole bloody place. To Valentine, it's a