Joyful verses celebrating dogs

T.S. Eliot’s aspiration to write a book of light verse about dogs as companion to the famous Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was prompted when his driver dismissed his own canine as of no pedigree or “inconsequential”. And it has at last been honoured by Christopher Reid

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