Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984. He lives in Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in English at Girton College in 2010; he works as a library assistant, literary critic, and teacher. Acknowledgements are due to the following publications, in which a number of these poems, some in earlier versions, previously appeared: Antiphon, The Apple Anthology (Nine Arches, 2013), Blackbox Manifold, Ducts, Eborakon, Five Poetry Journal, The Literateur, The Mays, New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015), PN Review, Poetry Proper, The Stinging Fly, Wordlegs. Many thanks to Rebecca Watts for her often blunt advice on sequencing and edits. All remaining aesthetic errors result from her failure to be sufficiently persuasive.