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‘Barking' The Independent
A mongrel mix of prose, poem, cartoon strip, letter and limerick.
Musings upon his mum, his chum, his love, his love’s loss and salvation at the paws of his chum’s mum’s Welsh Border Collie.
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The dog is better suited to the hat
even though the cat
seems born to it by rhyming.
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‘If he wasn’t so profound a poet, he’d probably be regarded more seriously as a comedian, and if he wasn’t such a fine comedian, he’d certainly be taken far more seriously as a poet’
The Guardian