Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs

Christopher Reid

T. S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master of poetry Christopher Reid and read by Robert Bathurst.

Format
Audio book
ISBN
9780571349906
Date Published
04.10.2018
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Summary

I’ve rounded up a rowdy assembly
Of my own Consequential Dogs
As counterparts to Eliot’s mogs.
Mine are a rough and ready bunch:
You wouldn’t take them out to lunch . . .
But if they strike you as friendly, funny,
Full of bounce and fond of a romp,
Forgetful of poetic pomp,
I trust you’ll take them as you find them
And, at the very least, not mind them.

T. S. Eliot’s best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world.

For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot’s cats.

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Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and The Song of Lunch. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a…

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