I have just come across the YouTube site poetryreincarnations (formerly known as poetryanimations)
A recent addition is a version of The Omniscient Vet in which an image of the face of Guy Boas has been animated so that it looks as if he is actually reading the poem. Very clever, it is the work of Jim Clark.
I also learned that the poem was published in the Punch Anthology for 1935.
As well as being a poet & contributor to Punch, Guy Boas was a teacher & headmaster of Sloane School in Chelsea (whose old boys include Alan Johnson).
It is perhaps not totally inappropriate that a Google search today for “Boas” is likely to bring up a large number of sites related to Chelsea Football Club – only a short drive down the Fulham Road from the site of the old Sloane Grammar School.
