Mark Adrian Jefferis (The iambic Assassin)

Mark Adrian Jefferis (The iambic Assassin)

The iambic Assassin (Mark Jefferis) is a poet, who prefers to refer to himself as a promoter of silly verse. He was first drawn to poetry reading limericks in The Topper children's comic book at about the age of eight and can still remember a few of them. In his teens he became a big fan of The Goons, especially Spike Milligan, who he managed to see when Spike was at the ripe old age of 80 playing a gig at The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton. It was 1998, the year 'On The Ning Nang Nong' was voted Britain's favourite comic poem. He has always been a big fan of Pam Ayres and in later years The iambic Assassin came across Dr John Cooper Clarke, Martin Newell and other talents such as Luke Wright and Claire Ferguson Walker. For many years Mark has penned poems for friends and special family occasions. He loves using alliteration in his poems and likes to term the phrase that, 'if you don't like it', "listen less"! Mark likes writing therapeutic, humorous, hard-hitting observational poems (sometimes songs too) that he hopes people won't be offended by, but makes them think and either laugh while, perhaps, still disagreeing with The Assassin's 'tell it like it is' flamboyant witty style. ‍

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