A Gommil from Bumble Bee Bight and Other Nonsense Verse
by Dawe, Tom and Sylvia Ficken , Harry Cuff Publications Ltd., St. Johns, Newfoundland, 1982.
Martina Seifert writes of the above book by Tom Dawe:
In A Gommil From Bumble Bee Bight, Dawe tells about fortunes and misfortunes, joyful and joyless times, in short, the positive and the negative sides of life on the island. The limericks are imaginative and hilarious like "An octopus down in Old Shop, / Was snoozing on top of a lop, / When an iceberg so white, / Sidled by in the night, / And froze him into a full stop " [GB 39] or "A lad who lived out in Monroe, / Grew a fabulous wart on his toe; / But on Bonfire Night, / He set it alight, / That luminous lad from Monroe" [GB 31].
Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe
by Martina Seifert
Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture, volume 8
Galda & Wilch Verlag, 2002
ISBN 3931397459
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