Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers bsl They are sometimes ironical and

They are sometimes ironical and at others metaphorical

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

and quietly devastating in its study of interior collapse

Hilborn uses the same humour and self-deprecation that propelled OCD to success in order to make his unmatched vulnerability all the more powerful

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

Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers bsl They are sometimes ironical andHome 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