acknowledgements Acknowledgements are due to the editors and publishers of the following: RTE Radio One, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent (Culture Magazine), Irish Examiner, Cork Literary Review, Manchester Review, London Magazine, PN Review, Plume (online), The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Quarryman (University College, Cork), The Shop, Park (Berlin), Poetry International (Rotterdam), Times Literary Supplement, The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry: Volume II ( Wake Forest University Press, 2010). The author acknowledges with gratitude the support of the Irish Arts Council through its continuing support and advocacy of Aosdána, the affiliation of artists in Ireland. 83