ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The confluence of ideas and approaches which made this book possible – ideas from Oulipo, from land art, from psychogeography, from nature writing, and from experimental poetry – were a direct result of the work I was engaged in with colleagues at the University of Essex at the time of writing, in particular the Memory Maps project, convened by Marina Warner. I would like to thank all my friends and colleagues from the University of Essex, in particular Marina Warner, Adrian May and James Canton, as well as the many inspirational guests we invited to our yearly colloquia, Ken Worpole, Rachel Lichtenstein, Mark Cocker, Helen Macdonald, and Iain Sinclair, amongst others, without whose example and guidance these poems would not have been written. The V&A, who generously hosted the Memory Maps website, and where I was able to experiment with some early drafts of these quennets, also deserves my special thanks.