Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers Frank Ormsby Of previous collections: ‘The trickster

Of previous collections: ‘The trickster element pervades this dark powerful collection [Shoulder Tap]

An artist stepfather shines through

In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse

Beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Collins

I am fascinated by those codes because they were poetical

Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers Frank Ormsby Of previous collections: ‘The tricksterHome 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