Review
'Whether it is their caressibility, their demonstrably close kinship with the most magnificent predators in the world, their flexibility both moral and physical, their aesthetic sense of disposing themselves in attitudes fit to drive a sculptor to despair, their ability to come and go in utter silence, their courage when cornered, their nice judgment in knowing when to turn and flee - all these things have inspired poets to feel privileged in sharing this fragile planet with enigmatic creatures who know so much that we do not.' - from the Introduction
Product Description
This delicious gathering of poems about cats, from the eighth-century Pangur Ban to the present day, encompasses the arcane and the familiar: work by Apollinaire, Browning, Cowper, Day-Lewis, Dickinson, Eliot, Hardy, Hughes, Keats, Lynch, Mac Neice, Milne, Strachey, Verlaine, Seth and Yeats among others, plus unpublished poems by Francis Stuart and Derek Mahon. They represent a wide variety of responses in writers over the centuries, and are selected by one of Ireland's most respected men of letters.
