PARENT 12 Miriam Catharine Smith 1888 [1469]

GODFREY W. BULLARD was born on the 17 November 1929 and died on the 29 January 2008, aged 78. He was a poet and had at least two books of poetry published.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Poetic Obituaries:

A Ledbury man who wrote for the Spectatormagazine is to have the honour of a memorial service at an Oxford University college.

Godfrey Bullard, who was 78, died in November at Hereford Hospital but had just managed to make last-minute proof corrections to his second collection of humorous verse Mingled Measure, which came out this week.

The Dormouse Poem

Here is a recipe, records say,

For dormice cooked in the Roman way.

First your rodents are rendered fatter,

Mainly nurtured on nutty matter,

While supervised with especial care

In a jar constructed of earthenware.

When once the creatures are stout enough,

You slay them all, and proceed to stuff

Into each small body some pork, well blended

With other dormice whose lives have ended.

Infuse liquamen (an anchovy brine)

Along with kernels procured from pine;

Then asafoetida add as well,

If not deterred by its garlicky smell:

Sew up the apertures, gently roast

In a moderate over--and serve on toast!

--Godfrey Bullard