I didn’t see Les often in his later years but our friendship went way back to well before he gave up the day job.

I still have a couple of his early books - somewhere! I also had the pleasure of recording, editing and mastering his (first?) live record “Dogalogues” and, unlike many people, can claim to have been ignored by Mrs Ackroyd who accompanied Les everywhere except perhaps the curry shop we occasionally visited after our regular Saturday night hangout.

As for favourite poems, that’s dfficult, but how about the relatively recent (serious) one - The Fraudster.