A rabbit, a deer, a dolphin, a zoo; on the compelling (in every sense) evidence of these poems and pictures, maybe every bird and beast is, The Independent Animal'. That confident originality extends to the affectingly mature meditations on Sadness, Jealousy and other topics too weighty for the average poem or print. But then these renderings are far from average as the depictions of brothers and sisters and other family members demonstrate. A cracking anthology that will entice and enthrall.