Poem: ‘Cockney’
Mick Imlah, 3 September 1987
How heightened the taste! – of champagne at the piano; of little side-kisses to tickle the fancy At the party to mark our sarcastic account of the overblown Mass of the Masses by Finzi (An aristocrat who betrayed what he stood for and set up in Bow with his matchgirl fiancée);
Moreover, the skit I had chosen to grace the occasion (‘My Way – in the Setting for Tuba by...