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Join Michael Stewart for readings from ‘The Dogs’, a book about ‘man’s best friends’ – their origin-myths, and their place in the world before they were co-opted into human society and ideas of pure breeding and dysgenics.
A book about what humans have done to the world and what we have done to ourselves.
The Dogs also imagines a future where dogs develop the power of speech; led by the nonviolent UnderDogs and the more radical DerUberHünd, the animals of the world begin demanding their rights.
“Apocalyptic and analytical, compassionate and chaotic, darkly comedic – and deadly serious”, Steve Ely
“These poems are exciting, exhilarating, moving and profound”, Helen Mort
Stewart’s books include a collection of poetry Couples, the novels, Café Assassin, Ill Will and King Crow (winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award), a memoir Walking the Invisible, and two short story collections, Mr Jolly and Four Letter Words. He is the creator of the Brontë Stones project, monumental stones inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield.
