Author: Ian Cognitō 

Release Date: September 15, 2024

Publisher: Repartee Press

Pages: 98

ISBN: 978-1-7380830-1-5

About the Book

This collection presents a new, abridged version of Animusings (first published in 2020 by Repartee Press) along with 24 new animal-themed poems added to the mix to augment this revisited, re-imagined, and repopulated gathering.

What Ian creates here is a masterful, tongue-in-cheek collection which leaves the reader with a greater appreciation not only of the animals… he writes about, but also the way in which they intersect with our everyday lives. We are not so different after all. I was caught time and again by [Ian’s] distinctive  phrasing and his playful perceptions of our animal world, which resonate long after the cover is closed.

from the Foreword by P.C. Vandall

 Animalian… 

… offers a potent love tonic to open our eyes and stir our slumbering attention to the natural world. It encourages us, as readers, to strip off our threadbare excuses and jump into the teeming currents of our common kinship with all forms of life.

—Anne Marie Carson, co-author of Interchange