HOME TO MY CATS SLEEVE NOTES #4: THE ENDORSEMENTS Kirsten Irving’s editorial eye is a laser made of eagles & fantastical swords. Any James Womack poem reminds me of my insufficiencies. A shame ‘meowlogisms’/‘feline overlords’ constantly appear on slim volumes: you don’t know what you’re getting.

HOME TO MY CATS SLEEVE NOTES #3: THE BLURB They think you wrote a book you’d want to write (& read): relief! ‘Playful’, ‘mischief’, ‘riffing’, ‘punning’, ‘comedy’, ‘wit’: hope so, but just trying to make a poem happen, here. ‘Funny is the opposite of not funny’ (Chesterton). Nobody ‘lets’ TS & LC…

HOME TO MY CATS SLEEVE NOTES #2: THE COVER I get to have my name on a beautiful thing. What's form but a backlit animal meddling with a precise grid? Cf. Franz Marc, Two Cats, Blue and Yellow. Someday one of my book covers won't feature a right profile. I'm sure the cat would love a feather.

HOME TO MY CATS SLEEVE NOTES #1: THE TITLE Cf. Taylor Swift, ‘Gorgeous’; & her red-carpet comment about not going home with men. Stumble home to your cats; gravitate towards them; provide them with housing. My 2nd title w/ animals; 2nd w/ ‘My’. As cosy and domestic a book as I’m likely to write.

It’s publication month for Home to My Cats, which will launch online on Wednesday 29th before its official publication day of Thursday 30th! Some sleeve notes every day till then or till I regret it.

Owing to my presumptions (or, if you will, purrsumptions) of popular (or, if you will, pawpular) demand, I’m doing some cat (or, if you will, cat) poems from the forthcoming (or, if you will, furthcoming) book at the Hughes Hall Literary Day (or, if you will, Hughes Hall Litter Tray) this evening.

Owing to my presumptions (or, if you will, purrsumptions) of popular (or, if you will, pawpular) demand, I’m doing some cat (or, if you will, cat) poems from the forthcoming (or, if you will, furthcoming) book at the Hughes Hall Literary Day (or, if you will, Hughes Hall Litter Tray) this evening.

Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

*yawns* *stretches* I have a new book on the way! Home to My Cats, a chonky pamphlet of poems about (as the title might suggest) kittens and Taylor Swift, will be published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in April 2026, and is available to preorder. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Michael Longley's gone. This will never do.

A week in, this appears functional. I’m seeing cats and jokes and poems, and also sentences.