I came across Les Barker for the first time this year at Towersey. So funny he hurts. As well as the recordings there are around 20 books of LB verse available, all thoroughly recommended. For sheer brilliance, listen to Everything Glows (to the tune of Anything Goes) which is Les' throw on the Sellafield (sp?) nuclear power station.

As Les says, they don't need a lighthouse on the Isle of Man, because it glows in the dark anyway.

I'm sure Les wouldn't mind if I infringed his copyright and repeated a short verse here, if only to help spread the word:

Baa baa blackseep have you any wool? Course I y have. I'm a sheep.

See him live if you can. Apart from being a brilliant comic poet (and a serious one too, at times) he is a lovely bloke.