Joyce the Irish wolfhound
mongrels snapping at his heels
Burns the Scottish terrier
merrier than the usual breed
Thomas the Welsh terrier
otter fox and badger
Shakespeare! Old English
sheepdog pulling the wool
over everyone's eyes
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
hug
Kathy
Regis
and the "pound" will never be the same :)