Ed Boxall

It was the launch of ‘The Waggiest Tails’ last Saturday. It’s a lovely book of poems written by dogs. Poets Brian Moses and Roger Stevens gave the dogs a helping hand in writing the poems and I illustrated. The launch took place at Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare  and much fun was had by all- especially my dog Dixie as it was her birthday and she thought it was a big party for her.

I made some films of the performances. I adapted my song ‘What Would You Do if A Bear Was Chasing You’ for the occasion. I realised the names of dog breeds are often poetry in themselves…

Here’s Roger doing ‘Dancing Friends’ by Charlie The Chihuahua!

…and here’s Charlie doing his thing:

Brian did Olive and Flo’s autobiographical poem ‘Security Dogs’, with a Cajon groove:

Olive and Flo  enjoyed the performance:

This entry was posted on February 15, 2018 at 8:49 am and is filed under children, childrens illustration, dogs, Education, pets, Poetry. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: Brian Moses, Children's Poetry, dog poems, dogs, Key Stage 2 Poetry, Kid's poetry, Otter-Barry Books, Primary School Poetry, Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, Roger Stevens