A Dirty Little Present From Your Crush (poetry week) - That Was Genius Episode 54

<p>There once was a podcast on history. And why they still did it's a mystery. This week's about verse, so Sam's picked the worst. And Tom's done Catullus for his story.</p> <p>Yes, it's poetry week! Tom kicks us off with a look at the absolutely filthy mind of the famed Roman poet Catullus. Telling your rival to quite literally suck your d**k has never sounded so beautiful.</p> <p>Next, Sam takes us on a tour of the poets and poems widely believed to be the worst in the English language: The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall, A Tragedy by Theophile Marzials, and On Visiting Westminster Abbey by Amanda McKittrick Ros. Three terrible poems, topped by a very funny, very rude one from Gulliver's Travels author, Jonathan Swift.</p> <p>Subscribe and listen to us! <a href='http://bit.ly/TWGitunes'>Apple Music</a> // <a href='http://www.thatwasgeniuspodcast.com/'>Podbean</a> // <a href='https://overcast.fm/itunes1452660965/that-was-genius'>Overcast</a> // <a href='http://bit.ly/TWGStitcher'>Stitcher</a> // <a href='http://bit.ly/GeniusTuneIn'>TuneIn</a> // <a href='http://bit.ly/TWGSpotify'>Spotify</a></p> <p>Welcome to That Was Genius: Two blokes. A 12-hour time difference. An immature sense of humour. And 10,000 years of human civilisation. A weekly podcast looking at the weirder side of history.</p> <p>Join Sam Datta-Paulin (he likes history and lives in Britain) and Tom Berry (he also likes history but lives in New Zealand), for a weekly reflection on the bold, the brilliant... And the downright strange.</p> <p>From bizarre events and stories to equally odd inventions, barely a day goes by without something incredible (or incredibly stupid) happening around the world.</p> <p>We upload new episodes every Wednesday night/Thursday morning (UK time).</p> <p>Check us out on <a href='https://www.facebook.com/thatwasgeniuspodcast/'>Facebook</a>, <a href='https://instagram.com/thatwasgenius'>Instagram</a>, <a href='https://twitter.com/that_was_genius'>Twitter</a> and via our <a href='http://www.thatwasgenius