Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers bsl a small enclave of houses

a small enclave of houses in Exeter that she passed on the way home from school (and whose name fascinated her)

a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition

He has also armed himself with a sophisticated dramatic understanding learned in part from Browning

They are sometimes ironical and at others metaphorical

It’s about the disconnect

Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers bsl a small enclave of housesHome to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. These poems move between lyric address and ekphrasis, riffing on Louise Bourgeois, Franz Marc, Takashi Murakami, Louis Wain, and Arthur Rackham, while also letting Taylor Swift and Leonard Cohen wander into the cat's eye frame. Crothers writes with a quick, punning intelligence and a gift for the compressed