LONDON (AP) -- Master of mangled meter, writer of ridiculous rhyme, Scotland's bard of the banal, William Topaz McGonagall is being feted by his adopted city of Dundee, 100 years after his death. [...]

City of Discovery also has organized lectures and poetry competitions. And on Sept. 29, the anniversary of McGonagall's death, there will be a dinner, eaten backward from dessert to starter course, in homage to the eccentric versifier who liked to recite his work in pubs, dressed in full Highland dress and wielding a broadsword (and who was sometimes pelted with rotten fruit). [...]

"His appalling use of meter and rhyme and his unshakable self-belief have endeared him to the hearts of thousands of fans all over the world," Rolfe said.