A new edition of "Being Dragged Across the Carpet by the Cat", including poems from Dónall Dempsey's first pamphlet, "Sifting Sound into Shape". The poems are interleaved with prose poems about their composition. This is a meditation on the loss of Dónall's favourite sister when he was nine years old, a memorial to a favourite uncle and a tragic aunt whose life the little boy only understood when he grew up and left Ireland.. Some of the poems are in memory of people whom Dónall looked after when he worked in the Mental Health Service in London. This new edition contains 91 poems and prose pieces.