First published in Great Britain in 2003 by

Carcanet Press Limited

Alliance House

Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ

‘To One Feeling Differently’, ‘She Passed This Way’, ‘Crystals’, ‘The Child Would Be Older’, ‘To One in Another Mood’, ‘I’d Have to Think of Me’, ‘The

Flowering Corpse’, ‘Song in Autumn’, ‘First Communion’, ‘Hush Before Love’, ‘Antique’, ‘Pastoral’, ‘Paradise’, ‘Six Songs of Khalidine: To the Memory of Mary Pine’, ‘Lullaby’ ‘Finis’, copyright © 1923 The Authors

League Fund for the estate of Djuna Barnes.

‘Quarry’, copyright © 1969 The Authors League Fund for the estate of Djuna

Barnes

‘The Walking-Mort’, copyright © 1971 The Authors League Fund for the estate of Djuna Barnes.

‘Rite of Spring’, ‘Creatures in an Alphabet’, copyright © 1982 The Authors

League Fund for the estate of Djuna Barnes.

‘When the Kissing Flesh is Gone’, ‘Portrait of a Lady Walking’, ‘Lament For Wretches, Every One’, ‘As Cried’, ‘As Cried’, ‘Discant (There should be gardens)’, ‘Satires (Satires of Don Pasquin)’, ‘Discontent’, ‘Dereliction’, ‘Dereliction (Augusta said)’, ‘Dereliction and Virgin Spring’, ‘Laughing Lamentations of Dan Corbeau’, ‘The Bo Tree’, ‘Discant (His mother said)’,

‘Discant (He said to the Don)’, ‘Verse’, ‘Therefore Sisters’, ‘Laughing Lamentations’, copyright © 2003 The Authors League Fund for the estate of

Djuna Barnes.

Introduction and editorial matter Copyright © Rebecca Loncraine 2003

The right of Rebecca Loncraine to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988

All rights reserved

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 1 85754 707 1

The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England

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