{"id":679340,"date":"2023-11-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=679340"},"modified":"2023-11-13T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:22:25","slug":"muttering-doggerel-poems-from-a-dogs-perspective-by-liz-cowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/muttering-doggerel-poems-from-a-dogs-perspective-by-liz-cowley\/","title":{"rendered":"Muttering Doggerel: Poems from a dog&#8217;s perspective by Liz Cowley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Muttering Doggerel: Poems from a dog&#8217;s perspective by Liz Cowley<\/h3>\n<p>Always a dog lover, Liz Cowley has now turned her charming and insightful poetic skills to man&#8217;s best friend with Muttering Doggerel, a bookseemingly written by dogs themselves!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over 95 poems<\/strong> &#8211; delightfully enhanced by Tony Hannaford&#8217;s colour illustrations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-679341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mtm-615x961.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mtm-615x961.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mtm-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mtm.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve always wanted to write a book from a dogs&#8217; point of view, with plenty of grumbles about not being allowed upstairs, or on sofas and always having to wait too long for walks &#8211; among lots of more happy things. I never can look at a dog without wondering what on earth they&#8217;re thinking about.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muttering Doggerel attempts to do just that!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter many years as an advertising copywriter, Liz Cowley\u2019s first book of \u2018approachable poetry\u2019 A Red Dress, was described by Joanna Lumley as \u2019witty, poignant and straight from the heart\u2019, and was turned into a popular stage show in London and Dublin. She then made a name for herself with amusing volumes about gardening, like Outside in my dressing gown and Gardening in slippers, earning the accolade by The Lady magazine as \u2018Britain\u2019s finest gardening poet\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Muttering Doggerel: Poems from a Dog&#8217;s Perspective by Liz Cowley \u00a39.99. 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Over 95 poems &#8211; delightfully enhanced by Tony Hannaford&#8217;s colour illustrations. &#8216;I&#8217;ve always wanted to write a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":679342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679382,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679340\/revisions\/679382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}