Self-preening poets of all ages should read Poems You May Have Missed (Gompers Press, £10.99; online only) collected by Barry Fantoni, the co-founder of Private Eye who once also answered to the seductive soubriquet E.J. Thribb. Its parodies of Eliot, Pound, Cummings, Hopkins and many others are priceless tonics in these dark days. None better than he to explain how the hectically alliterative Hopkins bested the unblessed London Underground at Golders Green-gilled gold as gold unseen …