• Illustrated by Alan Lee
• Penumbra Press Poetry Series, 1984.
  PO Box 340, Moonbeam, Canada, P0L 1V0
• ISBN 0920806619

’The Animals Within’ opens with poems which were prize winners in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s National Poetry Competition. The poems grew from the experience and research of his landmark encyclopaedic history on animal extinction, THE DOOMSDAY BOOK OF ANIMALS: a book of the year selection for the New Scientist, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Observer and Time Magazine.

’The Animals Within’ also contains four original illustration - one frontispiece and three chapter illustrations - by the celebrated artist, Alan Lee. Lee and Day have collaborated on several books. In 2006, Lee was awarded an Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremonies as the visual creator and art director for the ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Trilogy.

Reviews:

“’The Animals Within’ is a beautiful looking book, Alan Lee’s misty fearful animals seem to me just right for these admirable and memorable poems. The Bali Tiger, the Stellar Sea Cow, the Barbary Lion and the Eskimo Curlew particularly haunt me.” - Earle Birney

“This book begins with ‘The Lost’: a remarkable sequence of poems about the extinction of species. Few poets – I’m thinking of D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes – have ever written so forcefully and convincingly about animals.” - Al Purdy.

“There is something in these poems that just made my hair tingle; in fact I got the craziest static in my head. What did it to me was that ‘illiterate voice’ in ‘The Hanged Man’…. The raw primitive presence was just wham-bam there on the page, shaggy, hot and convincing. I quite honestly don’t know what it’s doing there. But it’s the real animal.” -- Dennis Lee