Perverse Verse’s short iconoclastic poems offer humorous (often black) and reflective observations on life in our contemporary screwed-up world. Award-winning writer, Michael Gould (a Canadian transplant), is someone well outside mainstream poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand today. The poems, both published and new, will appeal especially to the baby boomer generation, though those of generations since who are lovers of wordplay and the hip general and literate reader will also find pleasures here.