in 2004, the Dundee Science Centre Education Outreach has hosted an annual Charity McGonagall Gala Dinner, in which guests eat their meal backwards from dessert to starter and hear the welcome address as they depart, "combining traditional and unconventional entertainment, with four-course dinner, complimentary wine and whisky". There is a McGonagall Square in the West End of Dundee. A number of inscriptions of his poetry have been made, most notably along the side of the River Tay on the pavement of Riverside Drive in Dundee. This monument contains a deliberate spelling mistake reading, "Beatiful railway bridge of the silv'ry Tay". Dundee Central Library maintains a William McGonagall Collection of his works. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. From c.1950 to 1995 a memorial bench stood on the path immediately to the north side of the church commemorating McGonagall and bearing the typically McGonagall-esque inscription "Feeling tired and need a seat? Sit down here, and rest your feet". The bench fell into disrepair and was not replaced. It is not known what became of its small plaque. Poems McGonagall's poems were published by his friends, in a series of books bearing variations on the title Poetic Gems. In the modern era, the entire series is reprinted in a single collection called The Complete McGonagall. When a poem was written has no bearing on which of the Poetic Gems books it appears in: the "Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan" and "Requisition to the Queen" were amongst McGonagall's earliest written poems, yet they appear in More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems respectively. See also Romeo Coates Florence Foster Jenkins James McIntyre (poet) Amanda McKittrick Ros Julia A. Moore Wesley Willis Tommy Wiseau Scottish literature The Eye of Argon Poetaster References External links McGonagall Online William McGonagall in the Poetry Foundation Documentary film about McGonagall Bard of the Silv'ry Tay A profile by James Campbell Picture of his memorial 1825 births 1902 deaths 19th-century Scottish male actors 19th-century Scottish poets British weavers Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard Date of birth unknown People associated with Dundee Poets associated with Dundee Scottish male stage actors Scottish people of Irish descent Victorian poets Writers from Edinburgh International Organisation of Good Templars