This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as P&O 1930 and Not Yet the Dodo; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as his tribute to Ivor Novello or his counter-attack on Graham Greene.
The book also includes an introduction by Martin Tickner and Coward's long-time companion, Graham Payn.