The Wrong Cat Poems

A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets. Brilliantly poised between the mythic and the everyday, the anecdotal and the delicately lyrical, these poems contain the wit, irreverence, and startling imagery for which Crozier is justly celebrated. They include the intimate and sometimes difficult conversations between husbands and wives, shadowed as they often are by faithlessness, compromise, and other betrayals; the ways in which crows, owls, and deers size up the humans around them and find them wanting ( More rapacious than us, more needy./They never take the shortest route/and use too many words when a caw would do. ); memories of a past whose influences and ghosts are still felt in the present.