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    Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
    Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
    Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
    Audiobook51 minutes

    Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

    Written by Christopher Reid

    Narrated by Robert Brathurst

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    About this audiobook

    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 Dogs' poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateOct 4, 2018
    ISBN9780571349906
    Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
    Author

    Christopher Reid

    Christopher Reid is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London. A former poetry editor at Faber and Faber, he worked with Ted Hughes on Tales of Ovid and Birthday Letters among other books. A Costa Award-winning poet, Christopher is the author of A Scattering and Anniversary and The Song of Lunch.

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