<p>Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns by comically reimagining them through the analogous 'lives' of plants and animals ? from snowdrops to love-lies-bleeding, manatees to warthogs, scorpions and moths to bats and swallows...