Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and
Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey's first
four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this
collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know
him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether
reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed
delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the
generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply
engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the
absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of
confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to
make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous
body of work. Little Dogs showcases the evolution of one the most
distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.