The Life and Works of William McGonagall

William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his poetry was hugely popular around the world - Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever? He didn't discover he was a poet until the comparatively advanced age of 52, when he underwent something of an epiphany.