I’ve rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot’s mogs. Mine are a rough and ready bunch:  You wouldn’t take them out to lunch… But if they strike you as friendly, funny, Full of bounce and fond of a romp, Forgetful of poetic pomp,  I trust you’ll take them as you find them And, at the very least, not mind them.

T. S. Eliot’s best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world.

For the first time in Faber’s history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dog poems are as witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot’s cats.