A Dog Called Instead

I was telling a friend a short while ago that some of the poems I've put in this collection date back to the 1980s, which for me isn't that far at all. Until I think about it. However, the date of conception is rarely the date that I've assigned to any of the poems here.

Nor is the poem given the date of the final word or punctuation mark. Some get dated to the time that I recognised them as poems rather than notes made on forms of paper or screen time. Some get the date when I decided that...