Pet Poems

A whole menagerie of pets and poems of different kinds to dip into. Creatures exotic and mundane inhabit a world that is both funny and tearful, well-known or crisply fresh. I've always loved T S Eliot's 'The Rum Tum Tugger' and familiarity hasn't diminished this - the illustration here is amusingly appropriate. 'Family holiday' made me tearful for the dog whose holiday time abandonment is complete, utter and unresolved - a powerful and uncomfortable poem to be read alone and impossible to read aloud without a catch in the voice. On a lighter note Gyles Brandreth's 'Ode to a goldfish' is a three word miracle.