If you follow this blog, or my social media accounts, you might have noticed that I love beaches and dogs almost as much as I love poetry. A couple of years ago I was walking on the beach when I snapped a photo of one of my favourite beach dogs, Flo. Soon afterwards, I posted that photo and a poem here on my blog in a Poetry Friday post.   Then, last year, I included both the photo and the poem in my poetry book, Teaching Poetry for Pleasure and Purpose.

Although I told Flo’s owners of this, and have seen them lots of times since, it has always been on the beach and, of course, I didn’t have a copy with me. But this week, finally, I was able to present Flo and her lovely people with their very own copy. And here is Flo, admiring herself and her poem.  Isn’t she lovely?